English
accoll
Accoll comes from Old French acoler ‘to embrace, to take in one's arms’, and goes back to Latin collum ‘neck’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcollum‘neck’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400acoler‘to embrace, to take in one's arms’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500acolen
- Englishearliest quotation 1840accoll
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcollum‘neck’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400acoler‘to embrace, to take in one's arms’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500acolen
- Englishearliest quotation 1840accoll
Earliest quotation: 1840, James Henry, Miscellanies: “Thrice raught I with mine arms to accoll her”.
Linked words
through Latin collum ‘neck’
Today it means
verb To embrace; cling to.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin collum / accoll