coll

See also: Coll, coll., coll', and Coll.

English

Etymology

From Old French coler, acoler (“accoll, throw arms round neck of”); ultimately from Latin ad + collum (“neck”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɒl/
• Homophone: call (with the cot-caught merger)

Verb

coll (third-person singular simple present colls, present participle colling, simple past and past participle colled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To hug or embrace.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of en to this entry?)

   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 82:

     'You couldn't expect her to throw her arms round 'ee, an' to kiss and to coll 'ee all at once.'

   • 1995, Anthony Burgess, Byrne:

     They kissed and colled in parks and fields and, better, a / Warm bed, her own.

Translations

to hug or embrace

• Finnish: halata (fi), syleillä (fi)

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Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin collum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔʎ/

Noun

coll m (plural colls)

1. neck
2. throat
3. collar (part of a garment)
4. neckline
5. (card games) suit

Further reading

• “coll” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Irish

Alternative forms

• call

Etymology

From Old Irish coll, from Proto-Celtic *koslos (“hazel”) (compare Welsh cyll).

Noun

coll m (genitive singular coill)

1. hazel (“wood of a hazelnut tree”)

Declension

Declension of coll

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative coll Vocative a choill Genitive coill Dative coll

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an coll Genitive an choill Dative leis an gcoll don choll

Derived terms

• cnó coill
• crann coill

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
coll	choll	gcoll
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• "coll" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

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Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kol͈/

Etymology 1

coll

From Proto-Celtic *koslos (“hazel”), from Proto-Indo-European *koselos (“hazel”) (compare Welsh cyll).

Noun

coll m

1. hazel (tree)

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	coll	collL	cuillL
Vocative	cuill	collL	culluH
Accusative	collN	collL	culluH
Genitive	cuillL	coll	collN
Dative	cullL	collaib	collaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: coll
• Manx: coull
• Scottish Gaelic: coll

Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *koldom (“destruction”).

Noun

coll n

1. destruction, injury, violation

Inflection

Neuter o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	collN	collN	collL, colla
Vocative	collN	collN	collL, colla
Accusative	collN	collN	collL, colla
Genitive	cuillL	coll	collN
Dative	cullL	collaib	collaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Scottish Gaelic: coll

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
coll	choll	coll pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 coll (‘hazel tree’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 coll (‘destruction’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Old Irish coll (“hazel”), from Proto-Celtic *koslos (“hazel”) (compare Welsh cyll).

Noun

coll m

1. hazel (tree)

Etymology 2

From Old Irish coll (“destruction”), from Proto-Celtic *koldom (“destruction”).

Noun

coll m

1. destruction