different between woll vs coll

English

Etymology

From Middle English wollen, a variant of Middle English wullen, willen, from Old English wyllan, willan. More at will.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?l/

Verb

woll

1. Obsolete form of will.
   • Chaucer

     I love no man in no gise, / That woll me reprove or chastise.

References

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

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?l/

Adverb

woll

1. (regional, colloquial, otherwise obsolete) Alternative form of wohl.

Derived terms

• jawoll

Interjection

woll

1. (regional, Sauerland, occasionally elsewhere in NRW) right?, isn't it?

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

woll

1. Alternative form of wolle

Etymology 2

Verb

woll

1. first-person singular present indicative of wollen

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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of en to this entry?)

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