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Coll

//qʰʊu̯// name, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A medieval English short form of the male given name Nicholas; very rare today.
2
A surname originating as a patronymic.
3
An island of the Inner Hebrides in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland.

Verb

1
To hug or embrace. ambitransitive
"So hauing ſayd, her twixt her armes twaine / Shee ſtreightly ſtraynd, and colled tenderly"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English collen, from Old French coler, acoler (“accoll, throw arms round neck of”); ultimately from Latin ad + collum (“neck”).

Etymology 2

Uncertain. The island name, from Latin Colosus (704 AD), is often associated with an Old Irish *koll or Proto-Brythonic *koll, themselves both from Proto-Celtic *koslos (“hazel”). Derivation from Ancient Greek κολοσσός (kolossós, “giant figure”) has been called "naïve" by Coates (2006).

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