Kölle

• Källe (Moselle Franconian, though Standard German Köln may now be used)

From Middle High German Cöllen, from Latin Colonia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkœlə/

Kölle n

1. (Ripuarian) Cologne (the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in northwestern Germany)

Borrowed from Central Franconian Kölle.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkœlə/
• Hyphenation: Köl‧le

Kölle n (proper noun, genitive Kölles or (optionally with an article) Kölle)

1. (dialectal, informal) Synonym of Köln
   • 2023 April 14, Patric Hemgesberg, “Die Wahrheit: Im Klingelbeutel zu den Sternen”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz‎, →ISSN:

     Damit der Dom in Kölle bleibt, ist dem Rheinländer offenbar kein Preis zu hoch. Nicht einmal die Unterwerfung unter den düsteren Kardinal Darth Woelki.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

From earlier Cöllen, from Latin colōnia (“colony”) in Colōnia Agrippīna (“Agrippine Colony”), a settlement named after Agrippina, the mother of Roman Emperor Nero; colōnia (“colony”) comes from colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”), from earlier *quelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkœ.lə/
• Rhymes: -œlə

Kölle n (Eupen)

1. Cologne (the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in northwestern Germany)