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See also: Tol, tól, țol, tol', -tól, and -től

English

Etymology

Back slang for lot.

Noun

tol (plural tols)

  1. (obsolete, costermongers) Lot
    • 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Habits and Amusements of Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor[1], volume 1, page 11:
      Business topics are discussed in a most peculiar style. One man takes the pipe from his mouth and says, "Bill made a doogheno hit this morning." "Jem," says another, to a man just entering, "you'll stand a top o' reeb?" "On," answers Jem, "I've had a trosseno tol, and have been doing dab."
    • 1978, Rose Ayers, The Street Sparrows:
      "Give me two gen, then, and take the whole bloody tol. I've walked me teef orf afore rouf this mornin', and wot 'ave I got? Two bloody yenneps! I ask yer."

Anagrams


Asturian

Etymology

From a contraction of the determiner tou (all) + masculine singular article el (the).

Contraction

tol m (feminine tola, neuter tolo, masculine plural tolos, feminine plural toles)

  1. all the

Bariai

Numeral

tol

  1. three

References


Catalan

Verb

tol

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɔl/
  • audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: tol
  • Rhymes: -ɔl

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch tol (twig), related to telg.

Noun

tol m (plural tollen, diminutive tolletje n)

  1. top, spinning top (a toy)

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: tol

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch tol, from Old Dutch tol, from Latin telōneum (custom house).

Noun

tol m (plural tollen)

  1. toll, customs (money)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: tol
  • Indonesian: tol

Anagrams


Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse þol.

Pronunciation

Noun

tol n (genitive singular tols, uncountable)

  1. patience

Declension

Declension of tol (singular only)
n3s singular
indefinite definite
nominative tol tolið
accusative tol tolið
dative toli tolinum
genitive tols tolsins

Antonyms

Anagrams


Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tullom, *tullos (hole), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- (to push, hit). Compare Spanish tollo (hole), Welsh twll, Breton toull, Irish toll.

Pronunciation

Noun

tol f (plural toles)

  1. ditch used for watering a field
  2. dam

References


Hungarian

Etymology

Of unknown origin.[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

tol

  1. (transitive) to push
    Synonyms: nyom, lök, taszít

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

References

  1. ^ tol in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch tol (toll).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tol/
  • Hyphenation: tol

Noun

tol

  1. toll
  2. toll road
  3. toll gate

Further reading


Lithuanian

Preposition

tol

  1. until

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English toll.

Noun

tol

  1. Alternative form of toll (toll)

Etymology 2

From Old English tōl.

Noun

tol

  1. Alternative form of tool (tool)

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Old High German tal, from Proto-Germanic *dalą.

Pronunciation

Noun

tol n (plural telder)

  1. valley (elongated depression between hills or mountains)

References

  • Anthony R. Rowley, Liacht as de sproch: Grammatica della lingua mòchena Deutsch-Fersentalerisch, TEMI, 2003.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

tol

  1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of tola

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tōlą, from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- (to tie to; secure).

Pronunciation

Noun

tōl n

  1. tool, implement, instrument

Declension

Descendants


Old High German

Etymology

From *dulaz, whence also Old English dol.

Adjective

tol

  1. foolish

Derived terms


Old Irish

Etymology

Unknown. MacBain associates it with Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (to bear, endure), but the semantic connection is tenuous.

Pronunciation

Noun

tol f (genitive toile or tuile, nominative plural tola)

  1. will
  2. desire
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10d26
      massu thol atom·aig dó; manid ar lóg
      if it is desire that drives me to it; if it is not for pay

Declension

Feminine ā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative tolL toilL, tuil tolaH
Vocative tolL toilL, tuil tolaH
Accusative toilN, tuil toilL, tuil tolaH
Genitive toileH, tuile tolL tolN
Dative toilL, tuil tolaib tolaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Mutation

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

Further reading