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Coloyne
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Middle English
Alternative forms
enm Colayne Coleyn Coleyne Coloigne Coloyngne colyn Culane
enm Colen Caxton
Etymology
enm fro Coloigne, fro Cologne, from enm la Colonia Agrippina Colōnia (Agrippīna). For the phonological development, see enm caroyne corpse, carrion.
Pronunciation
enm /kuˈlui̯n(ə)/
enm /ˈkulæi̯n(ə)/ /ˈkulɛn(ə)/ /ˈkulin(ə)/ with reduction
Proper noun
enm city in northwestern c/Germany Cologne
Hg Prologue 7 yes https://viewer.library.wales/4628556#?#&cv=25 She hadde paſſed / manẏ a straunge strem / At Rome she hadde been / and at Boloẏne / In Galẏce at Seınt Iame / and at Coloẏne She'd crossed many foreign seas; / she'd been in Rome and in Boulogne-sur-Mer, / at Santiago de Compostela and in Cologne
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
en Cologne pronunciation remodelled after modern French
cy Cwlen 1 1
wlm Cwlwyn 1
References
Coloine n MED8455