Where does “toile” come from?
toile (French) comes from French Toile, from Old French toile, from Old French teile, from Latin tēla, from Old Dutch tegela, from Proto-Germanic *tigulā, from Proto-Germanic tigulǭ, from Latin tēgula — to cover; pole, stick, beam.
toile (French): fabric, cloth; canvas; painting; web
Definitions
- fabric, cloth; canvas; painting; web
Ancestry of “toile”, step by step
toile traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French Toile
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | Toile | Web; World Wide Web |
| 2 | Old French | toile | fabric; web |
| 3 | Old French | teile | Alternative form of toile |
| 4 | Latin | tēla | web |
| 5 | Old Dutch | tegela | — |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | *tigulā | — |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | tigulǭ | tile; brick |
| 8 | Latin | tēgula | a large, flat and heavy roof tile used in an overlapping formation with the curved and smaller imbrex |
| 9 | Latin | tegō | to cover; to clothe |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | tegō | cover |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)teg- | to cover; pole, stick, beam |