toallia

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *thwahllja, *thwahillja (“towel, washcloth”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /to.aˈil.li.a/, [tɔ.aˈɪl.li.a]

Noun

toallia f (genitive toalliae); first declension[3]

  1. (Medieval Latin) towel, washcloth

Declension

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative toallia toalliae
genitive toalliae toalliārum
dative toalliae toalliīs
accusative toalliam toalliās
ablative toalliā toalliīs
vocative toallia toalliae

Descendants

  • Franco-Provençal: tiuaille (Old Lyonnais), tueillie (Old Savoyard)
  • Old French: toaille, tuaille, touaille, tuaile, touaile, towelle
    • Franc-Comtois: tiuaille, tiueille, tuâye, kyẅeyu
    • Middle French: touaille, toaille, touelle, tuaille
    • Picard: touaîye (Athois), duelle
    • → Middle English: towell, towayle, towaile, towelle
  • Iberian:
  • Italian: tovaglia
  • Old Occitan: toalha
    • Catalan: tovalla, toalla
    • Occitan:
      • Auvergnat: toiglia
      • Gascon: tabalhe
      • Provençal: toalha
      • Rouergat: tougaillo
  • Sardinian: tiàgia (Mesanìa), tialla (Campidanese), tiaza (Logudorese, Nuorese)
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *toallola
    • Old Catalan: toallola, tavallola, taueylola, teuellola
    • French: tavaïolle
    • Italian: tovagliola
    • Sicilian: tuvagghia

References

  1. ↑ Greimas, A.J. (1969), “toaille”, in Dictionnaire de l'ancien francais jusq'uau milieu du XIVe siècle (in French), Paris: Larousse, page 629: “*thwahlja, serviette”
  2. ↑ Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907), “tovaglia”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati: “*thwahlja”
  3. ↑ Blaise, Albert (1975), “tuella”, in Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs du moyen-âge: lexicon latinitatis medii aevi (Corpus christianorum) (in Latin, French), Turnhout: Brepols
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