Etymology

kolo

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Today it means: A national folk dance common in regions pertaining to South Slavic people, performed in a circle. Full definition →

Serbo-Croatian kolo ← Slovene kolo ← Proto-Slavic *kolo
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  1. Proto-Slavic · derived from*kolo“wheel”
  2. Slovene · borrowed fromkolo
  3. Serbo-Croatian · borrowed fromkolo
  4. English todaykolo

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian kolo and Slovene kolo, from Proto-Slavic *kolo (“wheel”).

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