Coll
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coll¹
- /kɑl/ US
- /kɒl/ UK
- /qʰʊu̯/ Multicultural London English
Sounds like col, caul, call (cot–caught merger) · Rhymes with -ɒl
Where it comes from
From Middle English collen, from Old French coler, acoler (“accoll, throw arms round neck of”); ultimately from Latin ad + collum (“neck”).
verb colls · colling · colled
- To hug or embrace. So hauing ſayd, her twixt her armes twaine / Shee ſtreightly ſtraynd, and colled tenderly
Coll²
- /kɒl/
Sounds like coll, col, call (cot–caught merger) · Rhymes with -ɒl
Where it comes from
Uncertain. The island name, from Latin Colosus (704 AD), is often associated with an Old Irish *koll or Proto-Brythonic *koll, themselves both from Proto-Celtic *koslos (“hazel”). Derivation from Ancient Greek κολοσσός (kolossós, “giant figure”) has been called "naïve" by Coates (2006).
proper noun
- An island of the Inner Hebrides in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Coll³
- /kɒl/
Sounds like coll, col, call (cot–caught merger) · Rhymes with -ɒl
Where it comes from
Clipping of Nicholas
proper noun Colls
- A diminutive of the male given name Nicholas, of rare usage. A medieval English short form of the male given name Nicholas; very rare today.
- A surname originating as a patronymic.
