tul

From Proto-Albanian *tull-, from Proto-Indo-European *teu(H)-(lo-) (“swelling”), from the root *tewh₂- (“to swell”).

Cognate to:

• Ancient Greek τύλος (túlos, “torus, wale”),
• Latin tullius (“swell, flood, gush, jet”),
• Middle High German dolle, dulle (“foliage”),
• Swedish tull (“pine cone”).^[1]

Ultimately a doublet of tytë and tëtanë (possibly).

tul f (plural tule, definite tulja, definite plural tulet)

1. flesh, pulp, crumb

• IPA^(key):

tul

1. second-person singular imperative of tulit

From Arabic طُول (ṭūl).

• IPA^(key): /tuːl/

tul m (plural tulijiet)

1. length (in space or time), duration
   • 1970, Anton Buttigieg, “It-Tallab”, in Fl-Arena:

     Wara l-bibien,
     fit-tul tat-toroq twal,
     batejt
     il-għeja
     il-qtigħ ta’ qalb,
     batejt fuq kollox il-mistħija;
     iżda ġarrabt ukoll
     il-ferħ u l-għaxqa
     li kull tallab iħoss
     x’ħin jasal wisq għajjien bil-ħorġa f’idu
     bil-ħobż għand ommu mġewħa.

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tul

1. throughout, for the length of, for many

   tul is-snin ― for many years

   tul il-lejl ― all night

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tul

Wikipedia ^pl

• IPA^(key): /ˈtul/

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• Rhymes: -ul
• Syllabification: tul

Learned borrowing from New Latin thūlium.

tul m inan (related adjective tulowy)

1. thulium (metallic chemical element (symbol Tm) with atomic number 69: a fairly soft, easily workable metal with a bright silvery-gray lustre)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tul

1. second-person singular imperative of tulić

• tul in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• tul in PWN's encyclopedia

Borrowed from French tulle.

tul n (plural tuluri)

1. tulle

tul m (plural tules)

1. tulle (material)
2. (Honduras) bulrush

• “tul”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Cognate to Silt'e (tuli).

tul

1. worm

• Initial SLLE Survey of the Zway Area by Klaus Wedekind and Charlotte Wedekind