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Kolk

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    An underwater vortex similar to a whirlwind, capable of dislodging, picking up, and moving boulders.
  2. 2
    A relatively small water-filled depression, especially in a bog: a bog pond, a bog eye, a bog kolk.

    "[…] bogs, but only around pools or kolks. The small-scale mosaic of hummocks and hollows so characteristic of the true raised bog is nowhere to be found on a wooded bog. The quaking bog community on the kolk edge, similar to that[…]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch kolk.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Low German Kolk, possibly via German Kolk. Cognate with Dutch kolk.

Etymology 3

From the Dutch and German surname, from Kolk (“bog, watering hole”) (see below).

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