Etymology

coolio

C3O1O1L1I1O1

Today it means: Cool; awesome; all right. Full definition →

English oh ← Middle English o ← Old French oh
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The story

  1. Englishcool
  2. Latinō
  3. Old Frenchoh
  4. Middle Englisho
  5. EnglishO
  6. Englishoh
  7. English todaycoolio

From cool + -i- + -o.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.