See also: tonął and tónál

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Etymology 1

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From tone +‎ -al.

 
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tonal (comparative more tonal, superlative most tonal)

  1. Of or relating to tones or tonality.
  2. Of or relating to the general character, mood, or trend of something.
    • 2011 December 5, James Poniewozik, “Boardwalk Empire Watch: Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?”, in Time[1]:
      The lurid way the story played out felt like a tonal shift for Empire, but not necessarily a bad one—in the process of shedding its cool costume-drama attitude for grotesque family dysfunction, the episode felt for once less like a story about Prohibition and more one about a specific set of people.
  3. (music) Employing tones that have a predictable relationship to some tonic.
  4. (linguistics) Employing differences in pitch (tones) to distinguish differences in the meaning of otherwise similar words (words which would otherwise be homophonic).
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Etymology 2

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From Nahuatl tōnalli (day, day sign).

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tonal (plural tonals)

  1. (in Mesoamerican mythology) An animal companion which accompanies a person from birth to death.
    • 1989, Robert Bartley Taylor, Indians of Middle America: an introduction to the ethnology of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, page 122:
      When a tonal suffers misfortune or death, the same thing happens to the person associated with it.
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Central Nahuatl

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From Classical Nahuatl tonatiuh.

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tonal

  1. (Tlaxcala) sun

French

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Etymology

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From ton +‎ -al.

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tonal (feminine tonale, masculine plural tonaux, feminine plural tonales)

  1. tonal

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German

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Etymology

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Ton +‎ -al

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tonal (strong nominative masculine singular tonaler, comparative tonaler, superlative am tonalsten)

  1. tonal

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Further reading

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  • tonal” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • tonal” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • tonal” in Duden online

Highland Puebla Nahuatl

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tonal

  1. sun

Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Latin tonus +‎ -al.[1][2]

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  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: to‧nal

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tonal m or f (plural tonais, not comparable)

  1. tonal

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  1. ^ tonal”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 20032024
  2. ^ tonal”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 20082024

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French tonal. By surface analysis, ton (tone) +‎ -al.

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tonal m or n (feminine singular tonală, masculine plural tonali, feminine and neuter plural tonale)

  1. tonal

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Spanish

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  • IPA(key): /toˈnal/ [t̪oˈnal]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: to‧nal

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tonal m or f (masculine and feminine plural tonales)

  1. tonal

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