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S. gamp n. “hook, crook” (Category: Hook, Crook)

S. gamp, n. “hook, crook; [N.] claw” (Category: Hook, Crook)
G. crog “hook”

A noun for a “hook, crook” derived from primitive ✶gapna based on the root √GAP “bend (tr.)” (VT47/20). The Etymologies of the 1930s also had N. gamp under the root ᴹ√GAP but in the 1930s gamp had the glosses “hook, claw” (Ety/GAP).

Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. clam(p) “grasp, claw” (GL/26).

Reference ✧ VT47/20 ✧ “hook, crook”

Cognates

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

✶gampa > gamp [gampa] > [gampʰa] > [gamɸa] > [gamfa] > [gamf] > [gamp] > [gamp] ✧ VT47/20

N. gamp n. “hook, claw” (Category: Hook, Crook)

See S. gamp for discussion.

Reference ✧ Ety/GAP ✧ “hook, claw”

Cognates

Derivations

Phonetic Developments

ᴹ√GAP > gamp [gampa] > [gampʰa] > [gamɸa] > [gamfa] > [gamf] > [gamp] > [gamp] ✧ Ety/GAP

G. clam(p) n. “grasp, claw” (Category: Nail, Claw)

See S. gamp for discussion.

Reference ✧ GL/26 ✧ “grasp, claw”

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