tól

• IPA^(key): /tʰɔuːl/

tól n (genitive singular tóls, plural tól)

1. tool, instrument

• amboð

From Old Norse tól, frim Proto-Germanic *tōlą.

• IPA^(key): /tʰouːl/
• Rhymes: -ouːl

tól n (genitive singular tóls, nominative plural tól)

1. tool, implement

   Synonyms: tæki, verkfæri

• heyrnartól (“headphones, earphones”)
• símtól (“handset”)

From Proto-Germanic *tōlą (“tool”). Cognate with Old English tōl.

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈtoːl/

tól n pl

1. (plural only) tools, instruments
   • Vǫluspá, verse 3, lines 7-8, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 1:

     […] tangir skópu, / ok tól görðu.

     […] tongs shaped / and tools made.

• tólakista (“tool-chest”)

• Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “tól”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 638
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “tól”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 440; also available at the Internet Archive