Dictionary:tul

Nynorn

Etymology

From Old Norse tól and/or Scots tuil and/or English tool, all of those ultimately from Proto-Germanic tōlą

Shetland use

✝tøl [tøl], sb., is phonetically more prob. Eng. tool, sb. (cf. the pronunc. "gød" of Eng. good, "føl" of Eng. fool), than O.N. tól, n., tool. Used in pl. tøls, in the special sense of implement for the twisting of ropes (tether) and lines (fishing-lines, esp. hadock-lines) the word is prob. old and springs from O.N. tól.

Pronunciation

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Alternate Forms

tøl

Noun

tul

instrument

Inflection

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Synonyms

(none known)

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