Where does “campground” come from?
Campground combines English camp and English ground, with camp deriving from Faroese grind, Old Norse grind, Latin campus meaning field, and Proto-Indo-European kamp-.
campground (English): An area where tents are pitched; An area where a...
Definitions
- An area where tents are pitched; An area where a...
Ancestry of “campground”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | camp | An outdoor place acting as temporary... |
| 2 | Middle English | kampe | An armed military conflict; a clash; A... |
| 3 | Old English | camp | combat; an enclosed piece of land |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | kamp | field; battle |
| 5 | Latin | campus | Open flat level ground: a plain, a natural field;... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂emp- | to bend; crooked; to bend, curve |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | kh₂em- | to bend, to curve |