"Collie" and Chaucer's "Colle."

Author / Editor
Parsons, Ben.

Title
"Collie" and Chaucer's "Colle."

Published
Notes and Queries 260 (2015): 525-29.

Description
Although the phrase "Colle oure dogge" (NPT 7.338) has been cited as support for the notion that "collie" derives from a medieval pet name, a review of attestations of "colle" provides no evidence that dogs given that name tended to be members of the sheep-herding breed.

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale
Language and Word Studies