толь

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Kalmyk[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Written Oirat ᡐᡆᠯᡅ (toli), from Proto-Mongolic *toli. Cognate with Buryat толи (toli), Mongolian толь (tolʹ), etc.

Sense ‘dictionary’ was a semantic loan from Literary Chinese (jiàn, mirror; dictionary) via Classical Mongolian ᠲᠣᠯᠢ (toli, mirror; dictionary).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

толь (tolʹ)

  1. mirror
  2. dictionary

Declension[edit]

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Mongolian[edit]

MongolianCyrillic
ᠲᠣᠯᠢ
(toli)
толь
(tolʹ)

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Classical Mongolian ᠲᠣᠯᠢ (toli), from Middle Mongol [Term?], from Proto-Mongolic *toli. Cognate with Khamnigan Mongol толи (toli), Buryat толи (toli), Kalmyk толь (tolʹ), Daur toly, East Yugur tooli, etc.

Classical Mongolian ᠲᠣᠯᠢ
ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ
(toli bičig, a dictionary, literally a mirror book) was a semantic loan from Literary Chinese (jiàn, a mirror; a dictionary), and also the equivalent of Manchu ᠪᡠᠯᡝᡴᡠ
ᠪᡳᡨᡥᡝ
(buleku bithe, a dictionary, literally a mirror book).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

толь (tolʹ); (hidden-n declension)

  1. mirror
  2. short for толь бичиг (tolʹ bičig, dictionary, endocentric compound)
    Монгол хэлний зөв бичих дүрмийн журамласан толь“Mongol xelnii zöv bičix dürmiin žuramlasan tolʹMongolian Orthographic Dictionary

Declension[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • толь I”, “толь II”, “толь III”, “толь IV”, in Монгол хэлний их тайлбар толь [Dictionary of the Mongolian Language] (in Mongolian), Institute of Linguistics of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, 2016–present
  • толь in Bolor tolʹ

Russian[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from French tôle.

Noun[edit]

толь (tolʹm inan (genitive то́ля, nominative plural то́ли, genitive plural то́лей)

  1. tarpaper (roofing and waterproofing material made by impregnating roofing paper with coal tar or shale oil products)
Declension[edit]
Descendants[edit]
  • Georgian: ტოლი (ṭoli)

Etymology 2[edit]

Adverb[edit]

толь (tolʹ)

  1. (obsolete) only, whether, so, such
    Synonyms: столь (stolʹ), насто́лько (nastólʹko)