Coloyne
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French Coloigne, Cologne, from Latin Colōnia (Agrippīna). For the phonological development, see caroyne (“corpse, carrion”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kuˈlui̯n(ə)/
- (with reduction) IPA(key): /ˈkulæi̯n(ə)/, /ˈkulɛn(ə)/, /ˈkulin(ə)/
Proper noun
Coloyne
- Cologne (a city in northwestern Germany)
- 1471 September 28 [1464], Raoul le ffeure, translated by Willyam Caxton, [T]he recuyell of the hiſtoryes of Troye, [London], translation of Le recueil de histoires de Troye (in Middle French), published c. 1474; republished by H. Oskar Sommer, editor[1]volume I, London: David Nutt, 1894, →OCLC, leaf 1:
- […] And ended and fynyſſhid in the holy cyte of Colen the . xix . day of ſeptembre the yere of our ſayd lord god a thouſand foure honderd fixty and enleuen &c .
- […] and completed and finished in the holy city of Cologne on the 19th day of September in the year of our aforementioned Lord God 1471 etc.
Descendants
- English: Cologne (pronunciation remodelled after modern French)
- →? Welsh: Cwlen
- → Middle Welsh: Cwlwyn
References
- “Coloine, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.