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