Unnumbered source etymology
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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname. · An unincorporated community in Buckingham County, Virginia, United States.
* As an English and Norman surname, from Caen in Normandy. * Also as an English surname, named for the Cam river, from the Celtic root of Old Irish camm (“crooked, bent”). This adjective also has surname derivatives from Scottish Gaelic and Welsh. * As a German surname, spelling variant of Kamm.
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- Cognate mentioncammsga · crooked, bent
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