Where does “كلونيا” come from?
كلونيا (Hijazi Arabic) comes from Italian Colonia, from French Cologne, from Old French Cologne, from Latin colōnia, from Latin colōnus, from Latin colō, from Latin quelō, from Proto-Italic kʷelō — to turn.
كلونيا (Hijazi Arabic): perfume, cologne
Definitions
- perfume, cologne
Ancestry of “كلونيا”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | Colonia | colony |
| 2 | French | Cologne | — |
| 3 | Old French | Cologne | — |
| 4 | Latin | colōnia | A colony, settlement |
| 5 | Latin | colōnus | farmer, especially a kind of tenant farmer or sharecropper; husbandman; tiller of the soil |
| 6 | Latin | colō | to cultivate the land, till, tend, take care of a field or garden |
| 7 | Latin | quelō | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | to inhabit |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |