tonal

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See also: tonął and tónál

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From tone +‎ -al.

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Adjective

tonal (comparative more tonal, superlative most tonal)

  1. Of or relating to tones or tonality.
  2. Of or relating to the general character, mood, or trend of something.
    • 2011 December 5, James Poniewozik, “Boardwalk Empire Watch: Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?”, in Time:
      The lurid way the story played out felt like a tonal shift for Empire, but not necessarily a bad one—in the process of shedding its cool costume-drama attitude for grotesque family dysfunction, the episode felt for once less like a story about Prohibition and more one about a specific set of people.
  3. (music) Employing tones that have a predictable relationship to some tonic.
  4. (linguistics) Employing differences in pitch (tones) to distinguish differences in the meaning of otherwise similar words (words which would otherwise be homophonic).
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Etymology 2

From Nahuatl tōnalli (day, day sign).

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Noun

tonal (plural tonals)

  1. (in Mesoamerican mythology) An animal companion which accompanies a person from birth to death.
    • 1989, Robert Bartley Taylor, Indians of Middle America: an introduction to the ethnology of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, page 122:
      When a tonal suffers misfortune or death, the same thing happens to the person associated with it.
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Central Nahuatl

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Classical Nahuatl tonatiuh.

Pronunciation

Noun

tonal

  1. (Tlaxcala) sun

French

Etymology

From ton +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

Adjective

tonal (feminine tonale, masculine plural tonaux, feminine plural tonales)

  1. tonal

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German

Etymology

Ton +‎ -al

Pronunciation

Adjective

tonal (strong nominative masculine singular tonaler, comparative tonaler, superlative am tonalsten)

  1. tonal

Declension

Further reading

  • tonal” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • tonal” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • tonal” in Duden online

Highland Puebla Nahuatl

Alternative forms

Noun

tonal

  1. sun

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin tonus +‎ -al.[1][2]

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: to‧nal

Adjective

tonal m or f (plural tonais, not comparable)

  1. tonal

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ tonal”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 20032024
  2. ^ tonal”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 20082024

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tonal. By surface analysis, ton (tone) +‎ -al.

Adjective

tonal m or n (feminine singular tonală, masculine plural tonali, feminine and neuter plural tonale)

  1. tonal

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /toˈnal/
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: to‧nal

Adjective

tonal m or f (masculine and feminine plural tonales)

  1. tonal

Derived terms

Further reading