Editing Coll (section)

==Etymology==
Coll is sometimes derived from [[Scottish Gaelic|Gaelic]] ''coll'', '[[hazel]]'.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|url = http://www.clanntuirc.co.uk/JSNS/V7/JSNS7%20Broderick.pdf#page=12|title = Some Island Names in the Former 'Kingdom of the Isles': a reappraisal|last = Broderick|first = George|date = 2013|journal = The Journal of Scottish Name Studies|page = 12|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150408212824/http://www.clanntuirc.co.uk/JSNS/V7/JSNS7%20Broderick.pdf#page=12|archive-date = 2015-04-08}}</ref> However, the name is given as ''Colosus'' in the [[Vita Columbae|Life of St Columba]] by [[Adamnán]], the seventh century abbot of [[Iona]].<ref>{{Cite book|title = Names in Multi-Lingual, Multi-Cultural and Multi-Ethnic Contact: Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Onomastic Sciences: August 17‒22, York University, Toronto, Canada|last = Coates|first = Richard|publisher = York University|year = 2009|isbn = 978-1-55014-521-2|location = Toronto|page = 236|chapter = A Glimpse through a Dirty Window into an Unlit House: Names of Some North-West European Islands|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150407205627/http://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10315/3642/icos23_228.pdf#page=9|archive-date = 2015-04-07|editor-last = Ahrens|editor-last2 = Embleton|editor-first = Wolfgang|editor-first2 = Sheila|editor-last3 = Lapierre|editor-first3 = André|chapter-url = http://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10315/3642/icos23_228.pdf?sequence=1}}* Early forms are listed in {{Cite journal|url = http://www.clanntuirc.co.uk/JSNS/V7/JSNS7%20Broderick.pdf#page=12|title = Some Island Names in the Former 'Kingdom of the Isles': a reappraisal|last = Broderick|first = George|date = 2013|journal = The Journal of Scottish Name Studies|page = 12|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150408212824/http://www.clanntuirc.co.uk/JSNS/V7/JSNS7%20Broderick.pdf#page=12|archive-date = 2015-04-08}}</ref> As /s/ between vowels had been lost in [[Celtic languages|Celtic]] before Adamnán's time, [[William J. Watson|Watson]] suggests that ''Colosus'' may represent a pre-Celtic name.<ref name=":0" /> [[Richard Coates]] has proposed that the name may be related to [[Greek language|Greek]] ''kolossós'' and may have referred to a humanoid [[Menhir|standing stone]] located on the island, like those still seen on [[North Uist]] and [[Isle of Lewis|Lewis]].<ref name="Coates 2009 236">{{Cite book|title = Names in Multi-Lingual, Multi-Cultural and Multi-Ethnic Contact: Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Onomastic Sciences: August 17‒22, York University, Toronto, Canada|last = Coates|first = Richard|publisher = York University|year = 2009|isbn = 978-1-55014-521-2|location = Toronto|page = 236|chapter = A Glimpse through a Dirty Window into an Unlit House: Names of Some North-West European Islands|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150408214115/http://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10315/3642/icos23_228.pdf#page=9|archive-date = 8 April 2015|editor-last = Ahrens|editor-last2 = Embleton|editor-first = Wolfgang|editor-first2 = Sheila|editor-last3 = Lapierre|editor-first3 = André|chapter-url = http://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10315/3642/icos23_228.pdf#page=9|access-date = 8 April 2015|url-status = live }}</ref> As ''Kolossós'' is not originally a Greek word,<ref name="Coates 2009 236"/> Coates suggests that the name could have been given to Coll at a time when the ''kolossói'' of [[Mediterranean]] culture were well-known, or named "by speakers of a language in which the ancestor of the word was the native term."<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title = Names in Multi-Lingual, Multi-Cultural and Multi-Ethnic Contact: Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Onomastic Sciences: August 17‒22, York University, Toronto, Canada|last = Coates|first = Richard|publisher = York University|year = 2009|isbn = 978-1-55014-521-2|location = Toronto|page = 237|chapter = A Glimpse through a Dirty Window into an Unlit House: Names of Some North-West European Islands|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150407205627/http://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10315/3642/icos23_228.pdf#page109|archive-date = 2015-04-07|editor-last = Ahrens|editor-last2 = Embleton|editor-first = Wolfgang|editor-first2 = Sheila|editor-last3 = Lapierre|editor-first3 = André|chapter-url = http://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10315/3642/icos23_228.pdf#page=10}}</ref> In Icelandic, the word ''kollur'' (Old Norse: ''kollr'', Norwegian: ''koll'' or ''kolle'') means "a rounded protrusion, such as a rounded mountaintop, or a tussock".