tol

Eye dialect of tall.

tol

1. (Internet slang) Tall.

Back slang for lot.

tol (plural tols)

1. (obsolete, costermongers) Lot.
   • 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Habits and Amusements of Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor‎, volume 1, page 11:

     Business topics are discussed in a most peculiar style. One man takes the pipe from his mouth and says, "Bill made a doogheno hit this morning." "Jem," says another, to a man just entering, "you'll stand a top o' reeb?" "On," answers Jem, "I've had a trosseno tol, and have been doing dab."

   • 1978, Rose Ayers, The Street Sparrows:

     "Give me two gen, then, and take the whole bloody tol. I've walked me teef orf afore rouf this mornin', and wot 'ave I got? Two bloody yenneps! I ask yer."

• tol-lol

• LTO, Lot, OTL, lot

From a contraction of the determiner tou (“all”) + masculine singular article el (“the”).

tol m (feminine tola, neuter tolo, masculine plural tolos, feminine plural toles)

1. all the

tol

1. three

• Steve Gallagher, Peirce Baehr, Bariai Grammar Sketch (2005)

tol

1. inflection of toldre:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /tɔl/

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• Hyphenation: tol
• Rhymes: -ɔl

From Middle Dutch tol (“twig”), related to telg.

tol m (plural tollen, diminutive tolletje n)

1. top, spinning top (a toy)

• bromtol
• draaitol

• Afrikaans: tol

From Middle Dutch tol, from Old Dutch tol, from Latin telōneum (“custom house”).

tol m (plural tollen)

1. toll, customs (tax or fee)
2. toll, heavy burden

• Afrikaans: tol
• Negerhollands: tol
• → Indonesian: tol

• lot

From Old Norse þol.

• IPA^(key): /tʰoːl/

tol n (genitive singular tols, uncountable)

1. patience

• ótol

• lot

• atol

From Proto-Celtic *tullom, *tullos (“hole”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”). Compare Spanish tollo (“hole”), Welsh twll, Breton toull, Irish toll.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔl/

tol f (plural toles)

1. ditch used for watering a field
2. dam

• atolar
• tola

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tol”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tol”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tol”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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• Rhymes: -ol

tol

1. (transitive) to push

   Synonyms: nyom, lök, taszít

(With verbal prefixes):

• tol in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• olt

From Dutch tol (“toll”), from Middle Dutch tol, from Old Dutch tol, from Latin telōneum (“custom house”).

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: tol

tol

1. toll:
   1. a fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc.
   2. toll booth, tollgate: a booth on a toll road or toll bridge where the toll is collected.
2. toll road: a road for the use of which a toll must be paid.

• “tol” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

tol

1. until

From Old English toll.

tol

1. Alternative form of toll (“toll”)

From Old English tōl.

tol

1. Alternative form of tool (“tool”)

From Middle High German tal, from Old High German tal, from Proto-Germanic *dalą. Cognate with German Tal, English dale.

• IPA^(key): /toːl/

tol n (plural telder)

1. valley

• Anthony R. Rowley, Liacht as de sproch: Grammatica della lingua mòchena Deutsch-Fersentalerisch, TEMI, 2003.

tol

1. imperative of tola

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tōlą, from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- (“to tie to; secure”). Possibly inherited through Proto-West Germanic, but since the term is not attested in any other West Germanic language, it may instead be borrowed from Old Norse tól.

• IPA^(key): /toːl/

tōl n

1. tool, implement, instrument

Strong a-stem:

• Middle English: tool, tole, tol, toole
  • English: tool
  • Scots: tuil

From *dulaz, whence also Old English dol.

tol

1. foolish

• tolaheit
• tolaheitī

Unknown. MacBain associates it with Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“to bear, endure”), but the semantic connection is tenuous.

The form toil was originally the accusative singular, while the form tuil was the dative singular. But both forms were already confused in the Glosses.

• IPA^(key): /tol/

tol f (genitive toile or tuile, nominative plural tola)

1. will
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 27^c9

     Níbo in tain no·mbeid ar súil tantum do·gneith toil far coimded.

     It must not be when you pl are seen (by him) only that you do your master’s will.

2. desire
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10^d26

     massu thol atom·aig dó; manid ar lóg

     if it is desire that drives me to it; if it is not for pay

• Middle Irish: toil, tail
  • Irish: toil
  • Manx: toill
  • Scottish Gaelic: toil

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tol”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “tol”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN

• 'tol

Clipping of utol, itself a clipping from kaputol.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtol/
• Rhymes: -ol
• Syllabification: tol

tol (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜎ᜔) (slang)

1. term of address to a male: brother; bro

   Synonym: brad

   Coordinate term: mare

   Musta na, tol?

   What's up, brother?

2. sibling (especially male)
3. boyfriend

   Synonym: kasintahan

• Zorc, R. David, San Miguel, Rachel (1993) Tagalog Slang Dictionary‎, Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /tol/

tol (plural tolpan)

1. a person of the Tol (Jicaque) ethnic group
2. the Tol language

• Dennis, Ronald K., Dennis, Margaret Royce de (1983) Diccionario Tol (Jicaque)-Español y Español-Tol (Jicaque)‎ (in Spanish), Tegucigalpa: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 39