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Where does “kolli” come from?

kolli (Finnish) comes from Swedish kolli, from Italian collo, from Latin collum, from Latin -is, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

kolli (Finnish): tomcat; young male; piece of luggage or freight

Definitions

  1. tomcat; young male; piece of luggage or freight

Ancestry of “kolli”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1SwedishkolliA piece of luggage or freight
2Italiancolloneck; collar; parcel, package; luggage
3Latincollumneck, throat; upper stem of a plant; servitude
4Latin-issuffixed to the root of nouns in composition,...
5Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
6Proto-Italic-ā—
7Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →