Karin

Never mind, I just answered my own question.
Thank you google and dictionary.com :-)
Karin


Root of colonel:

[Alteration of obsolete CORONEL , from French, from Old Italian COLONELLO, from diminutive of COLONNA, column of soldiers, from Latin COLUMNA , column. See kel-2 in Indo-European Roots.]



Root of colony:

[Middle English COLONIE, from Latin COLONIA, from COLONUS, settler, from COLORE, to cultivate. See kwel-1 in Indo-European Roots.]




>Do the words Colonel and Colony come from the same root word? (would that be colon? ;-)
>Maybe not, (I'm trying to figure out how) but the two words look so similar.

>Karin

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Nancy Wooton

on 3/22/02 6:05 PM, Karin at curtkar@... wrote:

> Never mind, I just answered my own question.
> Thank you google and dictionary.com :-)
> Karin
>
>
> Root of colonel:
>
> [Alteration of obsolete CORONEL , from French, from Old Italian COLONELLO,
> from diminutive of COLONNA, column of soldiers, from Latin COLUMNA , column.
> See kel-2 in Indo-European Roots.]
>
>
>
> Root of colony:
>
> [Middle English COLONIE, from Latin COLONIA, from COLONUS, settler, from
> COLORE, to cultivate. See kwel-1 in Indo-European Roots.]

>>Do the words Colonel and Colony come from the same root word? (would that be
>>colon? ;-)

You forgot to do "colon"!

(of the puncuation mark) From the Greek, "kolon," meaning a limb, member.
And "kolon" is also the Greek word for the large intestine.

Nancy (and The Chambers Dictionary)