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Collen en · PROPN · etymology 1

Etymology

Coll + -en. Variant of Colin.

Meanings

  1. A surname originating as a patronymic.

Forms

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Collen en · PROPN · etymology 2

Etymology

Anglicization of French Cologne.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete form of Cologne (city in Germany).
    alt of Cologne
    • Charlemaygne builded the Bridge in Collen and founded Munster in Germany, and in the yeare 864. the country of Holland began to bee an Earldome, being two yeares after the Bulgarians had receiued the Christian faith. 1615, John Stow, Edmund Howes, The Annales, or Generall Chronicle of England […], page 72: