köken: Inherited from Middle French chamois, from Late Latin camox, from Gaulish camox (5th c. AD, Polemius Silvius), probably from an extinct Alpine language (Raetic, Ancient Ligurian), possibly Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“without horns”).
köken: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *camocia, from Late Latin camōx, from Gaulish camox, probably from an extinct Alpine language (Raetic, Ancient Ligurian), possibly Proto-Indo-European *kem- (“without horns”). Doublet of chamuz.
chamois (species of goat) · suede (type of leather)
çekim: çoğul camurças
köken: Inherited from Late Latin camox, from Gaulish camox, influenced by corça (“doe”). Cognate with Spanish gamuza, Occitan camos and French chamois.
köken: First attested in 1722. Probably a loanword but of uncertain origin. Compare words in Turkic languages denoting '(castrated) billy goat', e.g. Kazakh серке (serke), Tuvan серге (serge), Uzbek serka.
köken: Etymology tree Gaulish camoxbor. Late Latin camoxbor. Old High German gamiza Middle High German gamizebor. Old Slovak kamzík Slovak kamzík Inherited from Old Slovak kamzík. First attested in the 17th century.
chamois (species of goat) · suede (type of leather)
çekim: çoğul camurzas
köken: From Late Latin camox, from Gaulish camox, influenced by corza (“doe”). Cognate with Spanish gamuza, Portuguese camurça, Occitan camos and French chamois.
From Middle High German gemeze, from Old High German gamiza (form only attested in a 13th-century manuscript). The variant Gams f is from Middle High German gamz m, f, n, from Old High German *gamuz or *gamaz (probably a masculine or neuter). These forms can be derived from Vulgar Latin *camōcius m, *camōcia f, which also underlie most of the dialectal Romance forms in Switzerland and northern…