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tolir

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Norman

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Etymology

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From Old French tolir, itself from Latin tollere.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tolir

  1. to suppress

Conjugation

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Old French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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First known attestation 881 in The Sequence of Saint Eulalia. Inherited from Latin tollō, whose the perfect stems lost the prefix sub- and instead comes from Vulgar Latin *tolsī (compare Italian tolsi).

Verb

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tolir

  1. to remove; to get rid of; to suppress
  2. to take; to seize

Conjugation

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This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

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  • Bourguignon: toillai
  • Middle French: tollir
  • Norman: tolir

References

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  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (tolir)