Word Origin Summary

Eau de Cologne is attested in French. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• eau de Cologne

  Finnish · borrowed from

• אָדעקאָלאָן

  YID · borrowed from

• odicolon

  Romanian · borrowed from

• colonia

  Spanish · derived from

• kolonya

  Tagalog · borrowed from

• 오드콜로뉴

  Korean · borrowed from

• eau de Cologne

  English · borrowed from

• オーデコロン

  Japanese · borrowed from

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