FromMiddle English collen Old French coler acoler ( “ accoll, throw arms round neck of ” ) ; ultimately fromLatin ad collum ( “ neck ” ) .
coll (third-person singular simple present colls present participle colling simple past and past participle colled
( ambitransitive ) hug orembrace .1593 Thomas Nashe ,The Choice of Valentines "As how, my lambkin," blushing, she replide, / "Because I in this dancing schoole abide? / If that it be, that breede's this discontent, / We will remoue the camp incontinent: / For shelter onelie, sweete heart, came I hither, / And to auoide the troblous stormie weather; / But now the coaste is cleare, we will be gonne, / Since, but thy self, true louer I haue none." / With that she sprung full lightlie to my lips / And fast about the neck mecolle's , and clips ...
1891 Thomas Hardy ,Tess of the d'Urbervilles 82 :'You couldn't expect her to throw her arms round 'ee, an' to kiss and tocoll 'ee all at once.'
1995 Anthony Burgess ,Byrne :They kissed andcolled in parks and fields and, better, a / Warm bed, her own.
Inherited fromLatin collum Occitan còl French cou Sicilian coḍḍu
coll m plural colls
( anatomy ) neck ( anatomy ) throat Synonym: gola mal decoll ―sorethroat ( clothing ) collar ( part of a garment ) neckline ( card games ) suit Inherited fromLatin collis ( “ hill ” ) .
coll m plural colls
( archaic or regional ) hill Synonyms: puig turó col ,pass ( through hills ) Synonym: pas FromOld Irish coll Proto-Celtic *koslos ( “ hazel ” ) (compareWelsh cyll
coll m genitive singular coill
hazel the letter C in theOgham alphabet Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
^ Finck, F. N. (1899 ),Die araner mundart The Aran Dialect Second volume: Dictionary ], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page148 ^ de Búrca, Seán (1958 ),The Irish of Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo: A Phonemic Study , Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies,→ISBN ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906 ),A Dialect of Donegal § 9 7 coll FromProto-Celtic *koslos ( “ hazel ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *kóslos ( “ hazel ” ) (compareWelsh cyll
coll m
hazel ( tree or shrub of the genusCorylus ) Initial mutations of a following adjective:
H = triggers aspirationL = triggers lenitionN = triggers nasalizationFromProto-Celtic *koldom ( “ destruction ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *kelh₂- ( “ to break ” ) .[ 1]
coll n
destruction ,injury ,violation Initial mutations of a following adjective:
H = triggers aspirationL = triggers lenitionN = triggers nasalizationMutation ofcoll radical lenition nasalization coll choll coll pronounced with /ɡ-/
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
^ Zair, Nicholas (2012 ),The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic , Leiden: Brill,→ISBN 245, 249 Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019 ), “1 coll (‘hazel tree’) ”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019 ), “2 coll (‘destruction’) ”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language FromOld Irish coll ( “ hazel ” ) , fromProto-Celtic *koslos ( “ hazel ” ) (compareWelsh cyll
coll m genitive coill
hazel ( tree ) ( obsolete ) C in the Ogham alphabetFromOld Irish coll ( “ destruction ” ) , fromProto-Celtic *koldom ( “ destruction ” ) .
coll m
destruction Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
FromProto-Celtic *koldom ( “ destruction ” ) .
coll m uncountable
loss Synonyms: aball methiant diffyg pall coll (feminine singular coll plural coll notcomparable )
lost ,missing Seecyll ( “ hazel ” ) .
coll (plural singular collen f
( obsolete ) hazel ( obsolete ) twig Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke,et al. , editors (1950–present), “coll ”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies coll (definite form collbi )
summit ,peak ,tip cormorant Fal, Arame; Santos, Rosine; Doneux, Jean Léonce (1990 ),Dictionnaire wolof-français , Paris: Éditions KARTHALA,→ISBN 53 
