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name
A medieval English short form of the male given name Nicholas; very rare today.
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name
A surname originating as a patronymic.
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name
An island of the Inner Hebrides in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland.
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verb
To hug or embrace.
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Usage: ambitransitive
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History
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).
From Middle English collen, from Old French coler, acoler (“accoll, throw arms round neck of”); ultimately from Latin ad + collum (“neck”).
Across languages
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