The story
- Latin · derived fromcollāris
- Late Latin · derived fromcollāre
- Old French · derived fromcoler
- Middle English · inherited fromcoler
- English todaycollar
From Middle English coler, borrowed from Old French coler (Modern French collier), from Late Latin collāre, from Latin collāris, from collum (“neck”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐍃 (hals, “neck”), Old English heals (“neck”). Compare Spanish cuello (“neck”). More at halse. Doublet of collet.
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishcoler all →
choler
Old Frenchcoler all →
coll
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.