tuáille

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish tuáille, borrowed from Middle English towel, towail, towaille, or else directly from Old French toaille.

Noun

tuáille m (genitive singular tuáille, nominative plural tuáillí)

1. towel

Declension

Declension of tuáille

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative tuáille tuáillí Vocative a thuáille a thuáillí Genitive tuáille tuáillí Dative tuáille tuáillí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an tuáille na tuáillí Genitive an tuáille na dtuáillí Dative leis an tuáille don tuáille leis na tuáillí

Derived terms

• éadach tuáillí m, tuáilléadach m (“terry cloth”)
• ráille tuáillí m (“towel-rail”)
• tuáille páipéir (“paper towel”) (for drying hands)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
tuáille	thuáille	dtuáille
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tuáille”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tuáille”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language