collum.
neck; throat; head and neck; severed head; upper stem (flower); mountain ridge;
Meaning & usage
The neck or throat.
A symbol of servitude.
A symbol of life.
The neck of a flask or bottle; the neck of the poppy; the middle part of Mount Parnassus.
Where this word comes from
Uncertain, but perhaps from Proto-Italic *kʷolsom, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷolso- (“neck”, literally “that on which the head turns”), from *kʷel- (“to turn”), whence also Limburgish kaklas, Latvian kakls. See also Old English heals (“neck, prow of a ship”) (whence English halse (“neck, throat”)), Middle Dutch and Old Norse hals (“neck”) (< Proto-Germanic *halsaz). Compare typologically Old Armenian պարանոց (paranocʻ, “neck”) (< պարանիմ (paranim, “to turn”)); Bulgarian врат (vrat), Russian во́рот (vórot), воротни́к (vorotník) (akin to верте́ть (vertétʹ)).
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