The story
- Middle Dutch · derived fromcoolsaet
- Dutch · derived fromkoolzaad“cabbage seed, (later) colza”
- French · derived fromcolza
- English todaycolza
From French colza, from Dutch koolzaad (“cabbage seed, (later) colza”), from Middle Dutch coolsaet, from kool (“cole”) + zaad (“seed”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.