Where does “Cowling” come from?
Cowling (English) comes from English Colling, from English Coll, from English Collen, from Old French coler, from Latin collāre, from Latin collāris, from Latin collum, from Latin -is.
Cowling (English): OS grid ref SD969429
Definitions
- OS grid ref SD969429
Ancestry of “Cowling”, step by step
Cowling traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via English Colling
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Colling | The act of colling; hugging or embracing |
| 2 | English | Coll | A medieval English short form of the male given name Nicholas; very rare today |
| 3 | English | Collen | — |
| 4 | Old French | coler | collar |
| 5 | Latin | collāre | collar, neckband; chain for the neck |
| 6 | Latin | collāris | neck |
| 7 | Latin | collum | neck, throat; upper stem of a plant; servitude |
| 8 | Latin | -is | suffixed to the root of nouns in composition,... |
| 9 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -ā | Forms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |
via English cowl
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | cowl | A monk's hood that can be pulled forward to cover... |
| 2 | Middle English | coule | A cowl; a monk's hooded cloak |
| 3 | Old English | cūle | — |
| 4 | Old English | cugele | hood, cowl |
| 5 | Ecclesiastical Latin | cuculla | monk's cowl |
| 6 | Latin | cucullus | a covering for the head, hood, cowl; a conical... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | kuH-l- | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kewH- | to cover, bedeck; cover |