frequentative of obsolete camp to wrangle, fight, from Middle English campen to fight, from Old English campian, from camp war, combat; akin to Old High German kamph combat, Old Norse kapp war, contest, energy; all from a prehistoric North Germanic-West Germanic word borrowed from Latin campus field, battlefield
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