tuile

See also: tuilé

English

Etymology

From French tuile (“tile”). Doublet of tile and tuille.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twiːl/
• Rhymes: -iːl
• Homophones: tweel, tuille

Noun

tuile (plural tuiles)

1. A type of thin, papery cookie, often bent into fancy shapes

Anagrams

• Lieut, Lieut., utile

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French

Etymology

Metathesis of Old French tiule, from Latin tēgula. Doublet of tégule, a borrowing. Compare Italian tegola. Compare also Middle French teille, the Champenois form inherited from Vulgar Latin *tegla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɥil/

• audio:

  (file)

Noun

tuile f (plural tuiles)

1. tile
2. (colloquial) bad luck, misfortune

   Synonyms: accident, imprévu

   Il m’est arrivé une tuile. ― Something bad happened to me.

3. (cooking) tuile (thin cookie)

Derived terms

• tuileau
• tuiler
• tuilette

 

Verb

tuile

1. inflection of tuiler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “tuile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• utile

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̪ˠɪlʲə/

Noun

tuile f (genitive singular tuile, nominative plural tuilte)

1. verbal noun of tuil
2. flood, flow

Declension

Declension of tuile

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative tuile tuilte Vocative a thuile a thuilte Genitive tuile tuilte Dative tuile tuilte

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an tuile na tuilte Genitive na tuile na dtuilte Dative leis an tuile don tuile leis na tuilte

Derived terms

• geata tuile (“floodgate”)
• maidhm thuile (“flash flood”)
• tonn tuile (“tidal wave”)
• tuile bháistí (“downpour of rain”)
• tuile fearthainne (“cloudburst”)
• tuile shléibhe (“mountain flood; cloudburst”)
• tuile thalún (“bulbous buttercup”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
tuile	thuile	dtuile
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tuile”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “tuile”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “tuile”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

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Norman

Etymology

From Latin tēgula.

Noun

tuile f (plural tuiles)

1. (Jersey) tile

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *toliyom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtu.lʲe/

Noun

tuile n

1. verbal noun of do·lin: flowing, flooding, inundation
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 51^b2

     .i. on tuiliu

     from the flood (glossing Latin enundatione)

   • c. 850 Glosses on the Carlsruhe Beda, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 10–30, Bcr. 25^c1

     .i. teora cethramdin huare aequinocht indid mailliu a tuile ar cach óen-laithiu

     i.e. three-quarters of an equinoctial hour by which the flood is slower day by day.

2. full tide

Inflection

Neuter io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	tuileN	tuileL	tuileL
Vocative	tuileN	tuileL	tuileL
Accusative	tuileN	tuileL	tuileL
Genitive	tuiliL	tuileL	tuileN
Dative	tuiliuL	tuilib	tuilib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: tuile
  • Irish: tuile
  • Scottish Gaelic: tuil
  • Manx: thooilley

Related terms

• liae
• díle
• tólae

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
tuile	thuile	tuile pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tuile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Scottish Gaelic

Noun

tuile

1. genitive singular of tuil

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
tuile	thuile
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.