See also: tonął

EnglishEdit

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Etymology 1Edit

tone +‎ -al

 
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AdjectiveEdit

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 2Edit

From Nahuatl tōnalli (day, day sign).

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NounEdit

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 NahuatlEdit

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EtymologyEdit

From Classical Nahuatl tonatiuh.

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NounEdit

tonal

  1. (Tlaxcala) sun

FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

ton +‎ -al

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AdjectiveEdit

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

  1. tonal

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GermanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Ton +‎ -al

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

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

  1. tonal

DeclensionEdit

Further readingEdit

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

Highland Puebla NahuatlEdit

Alternative formsEdit

NounEdit

tonal

  1. sun

PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin tonus +‎ -al.[1][2]

PronunciationEdit

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

AdjectiveEdit

tonal m or f (plural tonais, not comparable)

  1. tonal

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ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ tonal” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
  2. ^ tonal” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French tonal.

AdjectiveEdit

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

  1. tonal

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SpanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

AdjectiveEdit

tonal (plural tonales)

  1. tonal

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