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kolli

1. inflection of koll:
   1. definite nominative singular
   2. indefinite dative/genitive/ablative singular

From Italian collo.

kolli n (singular definite kolliet, plural indefinite kolli)

1. (transport) A piece of luggage or freight.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkolːi/, [ˈko̞lːi]
• Rhymes: -olːi
• Syllabification^(key): kol‧li
• Hyphenation^(key): kol‧li

Probably from koiras (compare dialectal nalli (“she-bear”), from naaras).

kolli

1. tomcat (male cat)
2. young male

• “1. kolli”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

Borrowed from Swedish kolli, itself from Italian colli.

kolli

1. (transport) piece of luggage or freight

• “2. kolli”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

kolli

1. indefinite dative singular of kollur

From Italian colli, plural of collo (“parcel”), from collo (“neck; collar”), from Latin collum. Originally in the sense "as much as one can carry around one's neck". Cognate of German Kollo (plural Kolli), French colis.

kolli n

1. (transport) A piece of luggage or freight.
2. (figuratively) someone severely injured or suffering from severe dementia or the like (with little ability to live independently), a vegetable

   Han var rädd för att bli ett kolli som sin mor

   He was scared of ending up a vegetable like his mother

• “kolli”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “kolli”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “kolli”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)