Where does “Koll” come from?

Koll (Albanian) comes from Ottoman Turkish قولا, from Italian colla, from Italian là, from Spanish la, from Portuguese lá, from German a, from German a-Moll, from Hungarian a.

Koll (Albanian): starch (laundry stiffener)

Definitions

  1. starch (laundry stiffener)

Ancestry of “Koll”, step by step

Koll traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Ottoman Turkish قولا

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ottoman Turkishقولاdun or sorrel
2Italiancollaglue or similar sticky material; size; A rope...
3Italianlàthere
4Spanishlafeminine singular definite article; the
5Portugueseláthere; used with an adverb phrase to indicate...
6GermanaAlternative form of A; Abbreviation of a-Moll;...
7Germana-MollA-minor
8Hungarianathe; this; that
9Frenchàto; on the, to; at
10Middle Frenchato; towards; third-person singular present...
11Old Frenchato; towards; belonging to
12LatinA—
13Etruscan𐌀and, also
14Ancient Greekᾱ̔—
15Phoenician𐤀ox; aleph; alef
16Egyptian𓃾—

via Ancient Greek Νικόλαος

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ancient GreekΝικόλαοςNicolas
2Ancient Greekλᾱόςpeople; men; the people
3Proto-Helleniclāwóspeople, crowd
4Proto-Indo-Europeanleh₂wospeople
5Proto-Indo-Europeanleh₂-to bark, howl; to be concealed
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