English Explanatory Dictionary

Cullane

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A male given name.
  2. A surname

Word forms

Cullane O'Cullane Colin

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.

Related words

Ó Coileáin
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