gamp

noun. hook, crook, hook, crook; [N.] claw

A noun for a “hook, crook” derived from primitive ✶gapna based on the root √GAP “bend (tr.)” (VT47/20). The Etymologies of the 1930s also had N. gamp under the root ᴹ√GAP but in the 1930s gamp had the glosses “hook, claw” (Ety/GAP).

Conceptual Development: The Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s had G. clam(p) “grasp, claw” (GL/26).

gamp

noun. hook, claw, crook

gamp

hook

1. gamp (i **amp) (claw, crook), pl. ?gaimp or ?gemp (i ngaimp = i ñaimp or i ngemp = i ñemp), coll. pl. gammath**

gamp

claw

gamp (i **amp) (hook, crook), pl. ?gaimp or ?gemp (i ngaimp = i ñaimp or i ngemp = i ñemp), coll. pl. gammath**

gamp

crook

gamp (i **amp) (hook, claw), pl. ?gaimp or ?gemp (i ngaimp = i ñaimp or i ngemp = i ñemp), coll. pl. gammath**

gamp

hook

(i ’amp) (claw, crook), pl. ?gaimp or ?gemp (i ngaimp =  i ñaimp or i ngemp = i ñemp), coll. pl. gammath

gamp

claw

(i ’amp) (hook, crook), pl. ?gaimp or ?gemp (i ngaimp =  i ñaimp or i ngemp = i ñemp), coll. pl. gammath

gamp

crook

(i ’amp) (hook, claw), pl. ?gaimp or ?gemp (i ngaimp =  i ñaimp or i ngemp = i ñemp), coll. pl. gammath