camminus

Latin

First attested in writing in the late 7th century in Spain. Borrowed from Gaulish *kamman, from Proto-Celtic *kanxsman; compare Celtiberian kamanom and Irish céim (“step, degree”).

cammīnus m (genitive cammīnī); second declension (Early Medieval Latin)

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: cammino
- >? Sicilian: caminu (borrowed from Spanish?)
North Italian:
- Ligurian: camìn
- Venetian: camìn, camin
Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: chemin
- Catalan: camí
- Occitan: camin, chamin
- Old French: chemin, cemin, kemin (northern)
  - Middle French: chemin
    - French: chemin
  - Norman: ch'min (Guernsey), c'mîn (Jersey), quémîn
  - Walloon: tchimin
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: camino, camín
- Asturian: camín, caminu
- Extremaduran: caminu
- Leonese: camín
- Mirandese: cammino
- Old Galician-Portuguese: caminho, caminno, camỹo, camĩo
  - Fala: camiñu
  - Galician: camiño
  - Portuguese: caminho (see there for further descendants)
- Spanish: camino
Vulgar Latin: *cammīnāre (see there for further descendants)

W. Meyer-Lübke: Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1911.