gamón

Concepts

asphodel

Synonyms

asfódelo

Translations

asphodèle

Affodil

Asphodil

gamão

affodil

asfódelo

asfòdel

Hyphenated as

ga‧món

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡaˈmon/

Etymology

Cognate with Portuguese: gamão

Cognate with Galician: gamón

Cognate with Catalan: gamó

In summary

Unknown. Probably from a substrate language. Possibly related to Proto-Brythonic *gwɨmon, from Proto-Celtic *wimmonā, and this possibly from a non-IE substrate language or from Proto-Indo-European *weyb- (“to wind around”). Cognate with Portuguese gamão, Galician gamón and Catalan gamó.