Coloyne

• Colayne, Coleyn, Coleyne, Coloigne, Coloyngne, colyn, Culane
• Colen (Caxton)

Borrowed from Old French Coloigne, Cologne, from Latin Colōnia (Agrippīna). For the phonological development, see caroyne (“corpse, carrion”).

• IPA^(key): /kuˈlui̯n(ə)/
• (with reduction) IPA^(key): /ˈkulæi̯n(ə)/, /ˈkulɛn(ə)/, /ˈkulin(ə)/

Coloyne

1. Cologne (a city in northwestern Germany)
   • 1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “Here Bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunt́burẏ”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 7, verso:

     She hadde paſſed / manẏ a straunge strem / At Rome she hadde been / and at Boloẏne / In Galẏce at Seınt Iame / and at Coloẏne […]

     She'd crossed many foreign seas; / she'd been in Rome and in Boulogne-sur-Mer, / at Santiago de Compostela and in Cologne […]

   • 1471 September 28 [1464], Raoul le ffeure, translated by Willyam Caxton, [T]he recuyell of the hiſtoryes of Troye, [London], translation of Le recueil de histoires de Troye (in Middle French), published c. 1474; republished by H. Oskar Sommer, editor‎^[1]volume I, London: David Nutt, 1894, →OCLC, leaf 1:

     […] And ended and fynyſſhid in the holy cyte of Colen the . xix . day of ſeptembre the yere of our ſayd lord god a thouſand foure honderd fixty and enleuen &c .

     […] and completed and finished in the holy city of Cologne on the 19th day of September in the year of our aforementioned Lord God 1471 etc.

• English: Cologne (pronunciation remodelled after modern French)
  • →? Welsh: Cwlen
• → Middle Welsh: Cwlwyn

• “Coloine, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.