толь

Kalmyk

From Written Oirat ᡐᡆᠯᡅ (toli), from Proto-Mongolic *toli. Cognate with Buryat толи (toli), Mongolian толь (tolʹ), etc.

Semantic loan from Literary Chinese in sense ‘dictionary’.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tolʲ/

Noun

толь (tolʹ)

  1. mirror
  2. dictionary

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Mongolian

MongolianCyrillic
ᠲᠣᠯᠢ
(toli)
толь
(tolʹ)

Etymology

From Classical Mongolian ᠲᠣᠯᠢ (toli), from Middle Mongol [Term?], from Proto-Mongolic *toli. Cognate with Khamnigan Mongol толи (toli), Buryat толи (toli), Kalmyk толь (tolʹ), Daur toly, East Yugur tooli, etc.

The Classical Mongolian term ᠲᠣᠯᠢ
ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ
(toli bičig, dictionary, literally mirror book) was a semantic loan from Literary Chinese (mirror; dictionary), and apparently might be also calqued from Manchu ᠪᡠᠯᡝᡴᡠ
ᠪᡳᡨ᠌ᡥᡝ
(buleku bithe, dictionary, literally mirror book).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʰœɮ/
  • Hyphenation: толь

Noun

толь (tolʹ); (hidden-n declension)

  1. mirror
  2. short for толь бичиг (tolʹ bičig, dictionary)

Declension

Derived terms

  • Тулуй (Tuluj)
  • тольдох (tolʹdox), тольдогч (tolʹdogč)
  • тольдуур (tolʹduur)
  • тольт (tolʹt)
  • тольч (tolʹč)
  • тольчин (tolʹčin)

References

Russian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tolʲ]
  • Rhymes: -olʲ

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French tôle.

Noun

толь (tolʹ) m inan (genitive то́ля, nominative plural то́ли, genitive plural то́лей)

  1. tarpaper (roofing and waterproofing material made by impregnating roofing paper with coal tar or shale oil products)
Declension

Adverb

толь (tolʹ)

  1. (obsolete) only, whether, so, such
    Synonyms: столь (stolʹ), насто́лько (nastólʹko)
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