coll
English
Etymology
From Old French coler, acoler (“accoll, throw arms round neck of”); ultimately from Latin ad + collum (“neck”).
Pronunciation
Verb
coll (third-person singular simple present colls, present participle colling, simple past and past participle colled)
- (transitive, intransitive) To hug or embrace.
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- 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.
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Translations
Catalan
Etymology
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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
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
Mutation
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. |
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “coll”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Old Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Celtic *koslos (“hazel”) (compare Welsh cyll).
Noun
coll m
- hazel (“tree”)
Inflection
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Descendants
Etymology 2
From Proto-Celtic *koldom (“destruction”).
Noun
coll n
Inflection
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Descendants
- Scottish Gaelic: coll
Mutation
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. |
References
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 coll (‘hazel tree’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 coll (‘destruction’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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
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