Coloyne

Middle English

Alternative forms

• Colayne, Coleyn, Coleyne, colyn, Culane
• Colen (Caxton)

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

1. 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, editor‎volume 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.