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cullane

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
cul-lane
IPA
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A male given name.

name

A surname

Etymology

Anglicized from the Irish Irish Coilean, from Irish coileán (“pup, youth, trickster”), Old Irish cuilén (“pup, cub”), from Proto-Celtic *kolignos (“whelp”), possibly of non-Indo-European origin.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: Coilean, coileán, cuilén, *kolignos

Inflected Forms

O'Cullane (alternative) Colin (alternative)

Phrases

Ó Coileáin

Frequently Paired Words

Ó Coileáin

Questions

What does cullane mean?
A male given name.
Where does cullane come from?
It is traced to Irish.

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