Noun: tuyau
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | tuyau |
| Plural m | tuyaux |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like tuyau
renouveau,
pocheteau,
berceau,
métamatériau,
ypréau,
ypreau,
chaudeau,
lanterneau,
lapineau,
bordeau,
lapereau,
bouleau,
paonneau,
bandeau,
barreau,
bardeau,
barbeau,
zoziau,
mâtineau,
colineau, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French tuyau, from Old French tuel, tuial, tudel (“tube, pipe”), from Frankish *thūta (“pipe”), from Proto-Germanic *þeutǭ (“pipe, channel, flow”), from *þeutaną (“to howl, roar, resound”), from Proto-Indo-European *tu-, *tutu- (“bird-cry, shriek”). Cognate with Old Saxon theuta (“pipe, water-channel”), Old High German watardioza (“water-opening, spout, nozzle”), Old English þēote (“pipe, channel”), Dutch tuit (“spout, nozzle”), Icelandic þjótandi (“the name of an artery”), Icelandic þjóta (“to rush, whistle”). See: Old English Nouns '
þēote', Dutch Nouns '
tuit', Icelandic Nouns '
þjótandi', Icelandic Nouns '
þjóta'.
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