tyle

English

Verb

tyle (third-person singular simple present tyles, present participle tyling, simple past and past participle tyled)

1. Alternative form of tile (to protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated)

See also

• tyle-berry

Anagrams

• -lyte

Old Polish

Alternative forms

• tele

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *toli, reshaped under influence of ile. First attested in the 15th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /tɨlʲɛ/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /tɨlʲɛ/

Numeral

tyle

1. used to indicate that an amount or number equals something in the following or previous utterance; this much, this many; as many as; as much as
2. emphasizes the intensity of an action; so
3. emphasizes a high amount or number; so many, so much

Descendants

• Polish: tyle
• Silesian: tela, tyla

References

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “tyle”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
• Mańczak, Witold (2017) “tyle”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “tyle”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɨ.lɛ/
• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈtɨ.lɛ/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɨlɛ
• Syllabification: ty‧le

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Polish tyle.

Numeral

tyle (uncomparable)

1. used to indicate that an amount or number equals something in the following or previous utterance; this much, this many; as many as; as much as
2. emphasizes a high or low amount or number; so many, so much

Declension

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), tyle is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 7 times in scientific texts, 1 time in news, 7 times in essays, 34 times in fiction, and 34 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 83 times, making it the 776th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Particle

tyle

1. (colloquial) used to signal that one has exhausted the topic and is finished talking about something

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), tyle is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 5 times in scientific texts, 4 times in news, 0 times in essays, 17 times in fiction, and 34 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 60 times, making it the 1084th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

tyle m inan

1. locative/vocative singular of tył

References

Further reading

• tyle I in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tyle II in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tyle in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “tyle”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “TYLE”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 21.05.2012
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “tyle”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “tyle”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “tyle”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 185
• tyle in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

tyle

1. locative singular of tylo

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtəlɛ/

Noun

tyle m (plural tyleau)

1. (South Wales) steep (upward) road or path; steep gradient or slope.

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “tyle”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies