coll
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French coler, acoler (“accoll, throw arms round neck of”); ultimately from Latin ad + collum (“neck”).
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): /kɒl/
- Homophone: call (with the cot-caught merger)
VerbEdit
coll (third-person singular simple present colls, present participle colling, simple past and past participle colled)
- (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.
TranslationsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Occitan, from Latin collum.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
coll m (plural colls)
Further readingEdit
- “coll” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
IrishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Irish coll, from Proto-Celtic *koslos (“hazel”) (compare Welsh cyll).
NounEdit
coll m (genitive singular coill)
- hazel (“wood of a hazelnut tree”)
DeclensionEdit
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived termsEdit
MutationEdit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
coll | choll | gcoll |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
ReferencesEdit
- "coll" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Old IrishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Celtic *koslos (“hazel”), from Proto-Indo-European *koselos (“hazel”) (compare Welsh cyll).
NounEdit
coll m
- hazel (tree)
InflectionEdit
Masculine o-stem | |||
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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:
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DescendantsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Proto-Celtic *koldom (“destruction”).
NounEdit
coll n
InflectionEdit
Neuter o-stem | |||
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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:
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DescendantsEdit
- Scottish Gaelic: coll
MutationEdit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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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. |
ReferencesEdit
- 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
Scottish GaelicEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Irish coll (“hazel”), from Proto-Celtic *koslos (“hazel”) (compare Welsh cyll).
NounEdit
coll m
- hazel (tree)
Etymology 2Edit
From Old Irish coll (“destruction”), from Proto-Celtic *koldom (“destruction”).
NounEdit
coll m