The story
- Late Latin · derived fromColumba
- Scottish Gaelic · borrowed fromCalum
- English todayCalum
From Scottish Gaelic Calum, from Late Latin Columba (literally “dove”), the name of a sixth century Scottish saint, one of the patron saints of Scotland. Doublet of Colm.
Words from the same roots
Late LatinColumba all →
Colm
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.