tuil

• IPA^(key): /tœy̯l/

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tuil m (plural tuilen, diminutive tuiltje n)

1. bouquet of flowers

Derived from Middle Dutch tuelen, tuylen (“to work”). Related to English toil, Old Frisian teula (“to labour, toil”).

tuil m (uncountable, diminutive tuiltje n)

1. toil, work

• luit

From Old Irish tuilid, from earlier do-lin.

tuil (present analytic tuileann, future analytic tuilfidh, verbal noun tuile, past participle tuilte)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to flood

• tóla m (“flood [literary]”)
• tulca m (“flood, deluge”)

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tuilid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “do-lin”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Malayic *tuil, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *tuil, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *tuil, from (Western) Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tuil.

• IPA^(key): /tuil/, [tuel], [tuɪl]
• Rhymes: -uel, -wel, -el

tuil (Jawi spelling توءيل, plural tuil-tuil, informal 1st possessive tuilku, 2nd possessive tuilmu, 3rd possessive tuilnya)

1. (mechanics) Lever (rigid piece)

• pengumpil
• pengungkil
• pengungkit
• tuas

From Middle English tool, tol, from Old English tōl (“tool, implement, instrument”, literally “that with which one prepares something”), perhaps borrowed from Old Norse tól, but at any rate ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tōlą (“that which is used in preparation, tool”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- (“to tie to, secure”).

• IPA^(key): /tøl/, /tɪl/

tuil (plural tuils)

1. tool

From Old Irish tuile, from the root tu- (“swell”). Cognate with Greek τύλος (týlos, “knob, weal”). The Old Irish root ól- (“to flood, abound”) gives Old Irish tólam (“flood”) and imról, foróil (“abundance”).

• IPA^(key): /tul/

tuil f (genitive singular tuile, plural tuiltean)

1. flood, deluge, torrent

• an Tuil Ruadh
• cìrean na tuile