toaille

Old French

Alternative forms

tuaille, touaille, tuaile, touaile, towelle

Etymology

Medieval Latin toallia, from Frankish *thwahillja (“cloth”), from Proto-Germanic *þwahilō (“wash-cloth”).

Noun

toaille f (oblique plural toailles, nominative singular toaille, nominative plural toailles)

towel (cloth used for washing or drying)
- circa 1176, Chrétien de Troyes, 'Cligès':
  Li un ont les toailles prises
  Some took the towels

Descendants

Franc-Comtois: tiuaille, tiueille, tuâye, kyẅeyu
Middle French: touaille, toaille, touelle, tuaille
- French: touaille
Picard: touaîye (Athois), duelle
→ Middle English: towell, towayle, towaile, towelle
- English: towel
- → Irish: tuáille

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