Difference between revisions of "Camibalistics"

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*  ''Welsh'' '''cam''': crooked, bent, awry, wrong, by extension "unorthodox"
 
*  ''Welsh'' '''cam''': crooked, bent, awry, wrong, by extension "unorthodox"
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* '''Cambria'' → Cumbria, derivative of ''Welsh'' Cymru, Wales.

Revision as of 10:20, 26 July 2006

  • cam: in engineering, a mechanical linkage which translates circular motion into linear motion
  • ballistics: the science of the motion, behavior, and effects of projectiles
  • cannibal
    • Ulysses 077.33-34: "Rum idea: eating bits of a corpse why the cannibals cotton to it."
  • cannon balls
  • French baliste: a type of siege engine → Lazare Sainéan, La Langue de Rabelais (Paris 1922)
  • Japanese kami: divine
  • In northern dialect, a cam is a ridge or mound, such as those which divide plots of land and on which are planted hedges. From Scandinavian kame, "comb", "crest", "serrated ridge". May be a reference to Irish Mesolithic or Neolithic tomb- and mound-building cultures.
  • Welsh cam: crooked, bent, awry, wrong, by extension "unorthodox"
  • 'Cambria → Cumbria, derivative of Welsh Cymru, Wales.