different between toil vs toilless

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)

1. Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.

   Synonyms: derve, drudgery, swink; see also Thesaurus:drudgery
2. Trouble, strife.
3. (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)

1. (intransitive) To labour; work.
2. (intransitive) To struggle.
3. (transitive) To work (something); often with out.

   • places well toiled and husbanded
4. (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

1. 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)

1. 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

1. inflection of tol:
   1. accusative/dative singular
   2. 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)

1. will, desire, volition, inclination
2. 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

English

Etymology

toil +? -less

Adjective

toilless (comparative more toilless, superlative most toilless)

1. Free from toil.

Anagrams

• Stollies