toaille

Old French

Alternative forms

tuaille, touaille, tuaile, touaile, towelle

Etymology

Early Medieval Latin toallia, from Frankish *þwahilu (“cloth”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tuˈaʎə/

Noun

toaille oblique singular, f (oblique plural toailles, nominative singular toaille, nominative plural toailles)

towel (cloth used for washing or drying)
- c. 1176, Chrétien de Troyes, Cligès:
  Li un ont les toailles prises
  Some took the towels

Descendants

Franc-Comtois: tiuaille, tiueille, tuâye, kyẅeyu
Middle French: touaille, toaille, touelle, tuaille
- French: touaille
Picard: touaîye (Athois), duelle
→ Middle English: towayle, towaile, towelle, towell, towel, towail, towaille, tueil, touwayle, touel, twaile, tuell, touayl, touwayl, towayl, twayle, tawale, tewayll, toual, twaylle, towylle
- English: towel (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: toul, tool, tooel
- → Irish: tuáille

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