June theme: Domestic Animals 🐕

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camel, gamma

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• Semitic *gamal- camel

  • Central Semitic

    • Arabic جمل jámal camel

      • Maltese ġemel camel
    • Northwest Semitic

      • Aramaic

        • Classical Syriac ܓܡܠܐ gamlā’ camel
      • Canaanite

        • Hebrew גמל gamal camel
        • Phoenician

          • Ancient Greek κάμηλος kámēlos camel

            • Greek καμήλα kamíla camel
            • Latin camēlus camel

              • Old French

                • English camel
                • French chameau camel

                  • Haitian Creole chamo camel
              • Spanish camello camel
            • Ancient Greek καμηλοπάρδαλις kamēlopárdalis giraffe lit. "spotted camel"

              • Latin camēlopardalis

                • Afrikaans kameelperd giraffe
                • English camelopard
          • Phoenician gīml third letter of Phoenician abjad disputed, often traced to a word meaning "throwing stick", instead of "camel"

            • Aramaic gāmal third letter of Aramaic abjad

              • Hebrew גימל gimel third letter of Hebrew abjad
              • Arabic جيم ǧīm fifth letter of Arabic abjad
            • Ancient Greek γάμμα gámma third letter of Greek alphabet

              • English gamma
        • Akkadian 𒃵𒂷 gammal camel probably borrowed from central
  • South Semitic

    • Old South Arabian

      • Sabaean 𐩴𐩣𐩡 gml
    • Ethiopic

      • Amharic ግመል gəmäl camel

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Collected English words

camel, camelopard, gamma