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/

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 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)

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin collum.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

coll m (plural colls)

neck
throat
collar (part of a garment)
neckline
(card games) suit

Irish

Alternative forms

call

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

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.

Old Irish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kol͈/

Etymology 1

coll

From Proto-Celtic *koslos (“hazel”) (compare Welsh cyll).

Noun

coll m

hazel (“tree”)

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative
Vocative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
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

destruction, injury, violation

Inflection

Neuter o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative
Vocative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
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

C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “1 coll (‘hazel tree’)”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “2 coll (‘destruction’)”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN

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

destruction

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