Kölle
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Central Franconian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle High German Cöllen, from Latin Colonia.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kölle n
- (Ripuarian) Cologne (the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in northwestern Germany)
German
Etymology
Borrowed from Central Franconian Kölle.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kölle n (proper noun, genitive Kölles or (optionally with an article) Kölle)
- (dialectal, informal) Synonym of Köln
- 2023 April 14, Patric Hemgesberg, “Die Wahrheit: Im Klingelbeutel zu den Sternen”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN:
- Damit der Dom in Kölle bleibt, ist dem Rheinländer offenbar kein Preis zu hoch. Nicht einmal die Unterwerfung unter den düsteren Kardinal Darth Woelki.
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Limburgish
Etymology
From earlier Cöllen, from Latin colōnia (“colony”) in Colōnia Agrippīna (“Agrippine Colony”), a settlement named after Agrippina, the mother of Roman Emperor Nero; colōnia (“colony”) comes from colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”), from earlier *quelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kölle n (Eupen)
- Cologne (the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in northwestern Germany)