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toil
English
Alternative forms
- toyle (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English toilen, toylen, apparently a conflation of Anglo-Norman toiller (“to agitate, stir up, entangle”) (compare Old Northern French tooillier, tooullier (“to agitate, stir”); of unknown origin), and Middle English tilyen, telien, teolien, tolen, tolien, tulien (“to till, work, labour”), from Old English tilian, telian, teolian, tiolian (“to exert oneself, toil, work, make, generate, strive after, try, endeavor, procure, obtain, gain, provide, tend, cherish, cultivate, till, plough, trade, traffic, aim at, aspire to, treat, cure”) (compare Middle Dutch tuylen, teulen (“to till, work, labour”)), from Proto-Germanic *til?n? (“to strive, reach for, aim for, hurry”). Cognate with Scots tulyie (“to quarrel, flite, contend”).
An alternate etymology derives Middle English toilen, toylen directly from Middle Dutch tuylen, teulen (“to work, labour, till”), from tuyl ("agriculture, labour, toil"; > Modern Dutch tuil (“toil; work”)). Cognate with Old Frisian teula (“to labour, toil”), teule (“labour, work”), Dutch tuil (“toil, labour”). Compare also Dutch telen (“to grow; raise; cultivate, till”). More at till.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??l/, /?t???l/
- Rhymes: -??l, -???l
Noun
toil (countable and uncountable, plural toils)
- Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.
- Synonyms: derve, drudgery, swink; see also Thesaurus:drudgery
- Trouble, strife.
- (usually in the plural) A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey.
Derived terms
- toiler
- toilsome
Translations
Verb
toil (third-person singular simple present toils, present participle toiling, simple past and past participle toiled)
- (intransitive) To labour; work.
- (intransitive) To struggle.
- (transitive) To work (something); often with out.
- places well toiled and husbanded
- (transitive) To weary through excessive labour.
Derived terms
- toil and moil
Translations
Further reading
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “toil”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- -itol, loti
Basque
Noun
toil
- conger eel
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish tol (“will, desire”).
Pronunciation
- (Cois Fharraige) IPA(key): /t???l?/
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /t???l?/
Noun
toil f (genitive singular tola)
- will
Declension
Derived terms
- le do thoil
- más é do thoil é
Mutation
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tol”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- “toil” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
- "toil" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
References
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tol?/
Noun
toil
- inflection of tol:
- accusative/dative singular
- nominative/vocative/accusative dual
Mutation
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish tol (“will, desire”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t???l/
Noun
toil f (genitive singular toile, plural toilean)
- will, desire, volition, inclination
- delight, pleasure
Derived terms
- is toil leam (“I like”)
- mas e do thoil e (“please”)
Derived terms
- mì-thoil (“reluctance”)
- saor-thoil (“free will”)
- toileach (“willing”)
References
- “toil” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “tol”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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roil
English
Etymology
Origin uncertain. Possibly from French or Middle French rouiller (“to rust, make muddy”), from Old French rouil (“mud, rust”), from Vulgar Latin *robicula, from Latin robigo (“rust, blight”)
Pronunciation
- (UK, General American) IPA(key): /???l/
- Rhymes: -??l
Verb
roil (third-person singular simple present roils, present participle roiling, simple past and past participle roiled)
- (transitive) To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of.
- Synonym: agitate
- (transitive) To annoy; to make someone angry.
- Synonyms: irritate, rile
- 1890, Roger North, Lives of the Norths
- That his friends should believe it, was what roiled him exceedingly.
- (intransitive) To bubble, seethe.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To wander; to roam.
- (obsolete, Britain, dialect, intransitive) To romp.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Translations
Anagrams
- Loir, Lori, loir
Estonian
Noun
roil
- adessive plural of roog
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