coll
English
Etymology
From Old French coler, acoler (“accoll, throw arms round neck of”); ultimately from Latin ad + collum (“neck”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɒl/
Verb
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 Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
- 1995, Anthony Burgess, Byrne:
- They kissed and colled in parks and fields and, better, a / Warm bed, her own.
Translations
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan, from Latin collum.
Pronunciation
Noun
coll m (plural colls)
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish coll, from Proto-Celtic *koslos (“hazel”) (compare Welsh cyll).
Noun
coll m (genitive singular coill)
- hazel (“wood of a hazelnut tree”)
Declension
First declension
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Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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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.
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kol͈/
Etymology 1
From Proto-Celtic *koslos (“hazel”) (compare Welsh cyll).
Noun
coll m
- hazel (“tree”)
Inflection
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
Etymology 2
From Proto-Celtic *koldom (“destruction”).
Noun
coll n
Inflection
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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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
- “1 coll (‘hazel tree’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
- “2 coll (‘destruction’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology 1
From Old Irish coll (“hazel”), from Proto-Celtic *koslos (“hazel”) (compare Welsh cyll).
Noun
coll m
- hazel (tree)
Etymology 2
From Old Irish coll (“destruction”), from Proto-Celtic *koldom (“destruction”).
Noun
coll m