Word Origin Summary

Κόλλα is attested in Ancient Greek. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *kol-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• кола

  Bulgarian · derived from

• colle

  French · derived from

• collocyte

  English · derived from

• col

  Dutch · borrowed from

• osteocolla

  English · derived from

• desmocollin

  English · derived from

• colla

  Italian · derived from

• coller

  French · derived from

What You Can Explore

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