tolir

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Norman

Etymology

From Old French tolir, itself from Latin tollere.

Pronunciation

Noun

tolir

  1. to suppress

Conjugation

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

First known attestation 881 in The Sequence of Saint Eulalia. Inherited from Latin tollō, whose the perfect stems lost the prefix sub- and instead comes from Vulgar Latin *tolsī (compare Italian tolsi).

Verb

tolir

  1. to remove; to get rid of; to suppress
  2. to take; to seize

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

  • Bourguignon: toillai
  • Middle French: tollir
  • Norman: tolir

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (tolir)