toil

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Translations 1.3 Verb 1.4 See also 1.5 Anagrams 2 Basque 2.1 Noun 3 Irish 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Noun 3.2.1 Declension 3.2.2 Derived terms 4 Scottish Gaelic 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Etymology 4.3 Noun

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪl

[edit] Noun

toil (plural toils)

1. labour, work
   • 1908: Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

     ...he set to work again and made the snow fly in all directions around him. After some further toil his efforts were rewarded, and a very shabby door-mat lay exposed to view.

2. trouble, strife

[edit] Translations

[edit] Verb

to toil (third-person singular simple present toils, present participle toiling, simple past and past participle toiled)

1. to labour, to work
2. to struggle

[edit] See also

• toil and moil

[edit] Anagrams

• Anagrams of ilot
• loti

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[edit] Basque

[edit] Noun

toil

1. conger eel

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[edit] Irish

[edit] Etymology

From Old Irish tol (“‘will, desire’”).

[edit] Noun

toil f.

1. will

[edit] Declension

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun): Case Singular Nominative toil Vocative a thoil Genitive tola Dative toil

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an toil Genitive na tola Dative leis an toil don toil

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
toil	thoil	dtoil
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

[edit] Derived terms

• le do thoil
• más é do thoil é

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[edit] Scottish Gaelic

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [t̪ɔl]

[edit] Etymology

From Old Irish tol (“‘will, desire’”).

[edit] Noun

toil f.

1. will, desire, volition, inclination
2. delight, pleasure