толь

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tol"

Kalmyk

Etymology

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

Sense ‘dictionary’ was a semantic loan from Literary Chinese 鑑 (jiàn, “mirror; dictionary”) via Classical Mongolian ᠲᠣᠯᠢ (toli, “mirror; dictionary”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tolʲ/

Noun

толь • (tolʹ)

1. mirror
2. dictionary

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Mongolian

Mongolian	Cyrillic
ᠲᠣᠯᠢ (toli)	толь (tolʹ)

Etymology

Inherited 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.

Classical Mongolian ᠲᠣᠯᠢ
ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ (toli bičig, “a dictionary”, literally “a mirror book”) was a semantic loan from Literary Chinese 鑑 (jiàn, “a mirror; a dictionary”), and also the equivalent of Manchu ᠪᡠᠯᡝᡴᡠ
ᠪᡳᡨᡥᡝ (buleku bithe, “a dictionary”, literally “a mirror book”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰɔ.li/
• (Khalkha) IPA^(key): [tʰœɮ]
• Hyphenation: толь

Noun

толь • (tolʹ); (hidden-n declension)

1. mirror
2. short for толь бичиг (tolʹ bičig, “dictionary”, endocentric compound)

   “Монгол хэлний зөв бичих дүрмийн журамласан толь” ― “Mongol xelnii zöv bičix dürmiin žuramlasan tolʹ” ― Mongolian Orthographic Dictionary

Declension

Declension of толь (о-harmonic hidden-n ууд-pl)

attributive толин tolin singular / indefinite definite plural nominative толь tolʹ толинууд tolinuud genitive толины toliny толинуудын tolinuudyn accusative толийг toliig толинуудыг tolinuudyg dative-locative толинд tolind толинуудад tolinuudad ablative толиноос tolinoos толинуудаас tolinuudaas instrumental толиор tolior толинуудаар tolinuudaar comitative тольтой tolʹtoj толинуудтай tolinuudtaj privative тольгүй tolʹgüj толинуудгүй tolinuudgüj directive толь руу tolʹ ruu толинууд руу tolinuud ruu Reflexive possessive forms  singular / indefinite definite plural nominative толио tolio толинуудаа tolinuudaa genitive толиныхоо tolinyxoo толинуудынхаа tolinuudynxaa accusative толийгоо toliigoo толинуудыгаа tolinuudygaa dative-locative толиндоо tolindoo толинууддаа tolinuuddaa ablative толиноосоо tolinoosoo толинуудаасаа tolinuudaasaa instrumental толиороо tolioroo толинуудаараа tolinuudaaraa comitative тольтойгоо tolʹtojgoo толинуудтайгаа tolinuudtajgaa privative тольгүйгээ tolʹgüjgee толинуудгүйгээ tolinuudgüjgee directive толь руугаа tolʹ ruugaa толинууд руугаа tolinuud ruugaa independent genitive singular / indefinite definite plural singular possession толиных tolinyx толинуудынх tolinuudynx collective possession толиныхон tolinyxon толинуудынхан tolinuudynxan

Derived terms

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

References

• “толь I”, “толь II”, “толь III”, “толь IV”, in Монгол хэлний их тайлбар толь [Dictionary of the Mongolian Language] (in Mongolian), Institute of Linguistics of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, 2016–present
• толь in Bolor tolʹ

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

Declension of толь (inan masc-form soft-stem accent-a) 

	singular	plural
nominative	то́ль tólʹ	то́ли tóli
genitive	то́ля tólja	то́лей tólej
dative	то́лю tólju	то́лям tóljam
accusative	то́ль tólʹ	то́ли tóli
instrumental	то́лем tólem	то́лями tóljami
prepositional	то́ле tóle	то́лях tóljax

Descendants

• → Georgian: ტოლი (ṭoli)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *toli. Cognate with Polish tyle. See то́лько (tólʹko).

Adverb

толь • (tolʹ)

1. (obsolete) only, whether, so, such

   Synonyms: столь (stolʹ), насто́лько (nastólʹko)