different between coll vs colp

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?l/
• Homophone: call (with the cot-caught merger)

Verb

coll (third-person singular simple present colls, present participle colling, simple past and past participle colled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To hug or embrace.

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Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?k??/

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan, from Latin collum.

Noun

coll m (plural colls)

1. (anatomy) neck
2. (anatomy) throat

   Synonym: gola

3. (clothing) collar (part of a garment)
4. neckline
5. (card games) suit

Derived terms

• collada
• collejar
• colltort

Etymology 2

From Latin colle, collis (“hill”).

Noun

coll m (plural colls)

2. (archaic or regional) hill

   Synonyms: puig, turó

3. col, pass (through hills)

   Synonym: pas

Derived terms

• collet

Further reading

• “coll” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “coll” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “coll” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.

Irish

Alternative forms

• call (Ulster)

Etymology

From Old Irish coll, from Proto-Celtic *koslos (“hazel”) (compare Welsh cyll).

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /kal??/ (corresponding to the alternative form call)

Noun

coll m (genitive singular coill)

1. hazel (“wood of a hazelnut tree”)

Declension

Derived terms

• cnó coill
• crann coill

Mutation

References

• "coll" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kol?/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *koslos (“hazel”), from Proto-Indo-European *koselos (“hazel”) (compare Welsh cyll).

Noun

coll m

1. hazel (tree)

Inflection

Descendants

• Irish: coll
• Manx: coull
• Scottish Gaelic: coll

Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *koldom (“destruction”).

Noun

coll n

1. destruction, injury, violation

Inflection

Descendants

• Scottish Gaelic: coll

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 coll (‘hazel tree’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, 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

1. hazel (tree)

Etymology 2

From Old Irish coll (“destruction”), from Proto-Celtic *koldom (“destruction”).

Noun

coll m

1. destruction

English

Etymology 1

Noun

colp (plural colps)

1. Alternative form of collop

Etymology 2

Noun

colp (plural colps)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Short for colposcopy.

Further reading

• colp in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• CPOL, OLPC, clop, ploc

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?k?lp/

Noun

colp m (plural colps)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) Alternative form of cop

Derived terms

• colpejar
• colpisme
• colpista

Further reading

• “colp” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “colp” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “colp” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “colp” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Old French

Alternative forms

• cop
• coup

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *colpus, syncopated form of Latin colaphus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (kólaphos, “blow, smack”).

Noun

colp m (oblique plural cols, nominative singular cols, nominative plural colp)

1. strike; hit

Related terms

• colper/coper

Descendants

• French: coup
• Norman: co, coup
• Walloon: côp

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *colpus, syncopated form of Latin colaphus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (kólaphos, “blow, smack”).

Noun

colp m (oblique plural colps, nominative singular colps, nominative plural colp)

1. blow; strike; hit

Descendants

• Catalan: colp
• Occitan: còp

References

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928–2002) , “colaphus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 20, page 865