Noun: tonel
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | tonel |
| Plural m | toneis |
Sample Sentences
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Jtem diso que oýo diser que leuara hũu tonel da dita grãja de Saar porla cõgostra ao sopee Vasco de Vialo e que nõ sabe se era tonel ou pipa (Item, he said that he heard say that Vasco of Bealo took away a tun from that farm of Sar, by the sunken lane there near, but that he did not know whether it was a tun or a pipe) [1457, F. R. Tato Plaza, editor, Libro de notas de Álvaro Pérez, notario da Terra de Rianxo e Postmarcos, Santiago: Concello da Cultura Galega, page 181:]
Nouns inflected like tonel
xornal,
funeral,
barazal,
perixel,
persoal,
pebidal,
parasol,
substancial,
genital,
pirixel,
tornasol,
corporal,
lestegal,
guindal,
cabezal,
canaval,
cardeal,
caravel,
caracol,
caritel, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese tonel (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Old French tonel, diminutive of tone (“large barrel”), from Late Latin tunna, from Proto-Celtic *tunna (“hide, skin”). Cognate with Spanish and Portuguese tonel and Catalan tona. See: Portuguese Nouns '
tonel', Catalan Nouns '
tona'.
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