different between nahual vs tonal

English

Alternative forms

• nagual

Etymology

From Spanish nahual, from Classical Nahuatl n?hualli (“sorcerer, spirit, animal form a person may take”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??w??l/

Noun

nahual (plural nahuals)

1. (in Mesoamerican mythology) An animal form which a person may take.

   She has a nahual for every day of the week.

2. (in Mesoamerican mythology) A person who is able to take an animal form.

   They suspected that the man was a nahual.

Derived terms

• nahualism

See also

• narnauk
• skinwalker
• tonal

Spanish

Alternative forms

• nagual

Etymology

From Classical Nahuatl n?hualli (“sorcerer”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na?wal/, [na?wal]

• IPA^(key): /na??wal/, [na???wal]
• Rhymes: -al

Noun

nahual m (plural nahuales)

1. (Central America, Mexico) sorcerer

   Synonyms: brujo, hechicero

2. (Central America, Mexico) healer, witch doctor

   Synonym: curandero

3. (in Mesoamerican mythology) nahual (animal form which a person may take)

   Synonym: tonal

4. (in Mesoamerican mythology) nahual (person able to take animal form)

Descendants

• ? English: nahual

References

• “nahual” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
• Carlos Montemayor et al. (2009) Diccionario del náhuatl en el español de México, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, page 93

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?to?n?l/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??n?l/
• Rhymes: -??n?l

Etymology 1

tone +? -al

Adjective

tonal (comparative more tonal, superlative most tonal)

1. Of or relating to tones or tonality.
2. Of or relating to the general character, mood, or trend of something.
3. (music) Employing tones that have a predictable relationship to some tonic.
4. (linguistics) Employing differences in pitch (tones) to distinguish differences in the meaning of otherwise similar words (words which would otherwise be homophonic).

Antonyms

• atonal

Related terms

• tonality
• tonally

Translations

Etymology 2

From Nahuatl t?nalli (“day, day sign”)

Alternative forms

• tona, tonalli

Noun

tonal (plural tonals)

1. (in Mesoamerican mythology) An animal companion which accompanies a person from birth to death.
   • 1989, Robert Bartley Taylor, Indians of Middle America: an introduction to the ethnology of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, page 122:

     When a tonal suffers misfortune or death, the same thing happens to the person associated with it.

See also

• nahual

Anagrams

• Alton, Laton, Talon, Tolan, Tolna, laton, notal, talon

French

Etymology

ton +? -al

Adjective

tonal (feminine singular tonale, masculine plural tonaux, feminine plural tonales)

1. tonal

Romanian

Etymology

From French tonal

Adjective

tonal m or n (feminine singular tonal?, masculine plural tonali, feminine and neuter plural tonale)

1. tonal

Declension

Related terms

• atonal
• ton
• tonalitate

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: to?nal

Adjective

tonal m or f (plural tonais, comparable)

1. (tonal)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /to?nal/, [t?o?nal]

Adjective

tonal (plural tonales)

1. tonal

Derived terms

Related terms

• tono

Further reading

• “tonal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.