tonnelle

French

Etymology

Diminutive of tonne, with suffix -elle. Doublet of tunnel, a reborrowing from English.

Noun

tonnelle f (plural tonnelles)

arbour
Synonyms: treille, pergola

Further reading

“tonnelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle French

Noun

tonnelle f (plural tonnelles)

Descendants

→ English: tunnel
- → Afrikaans: tonnel
- → Armenian: թունել (tʻunel)
- → Czech: tunel
- → Danish: tunnel
- → Dutch: tunnel
- → Finnish: tunneli
- → French: tunnel
  - Haitian Creole: tinèl
  - → Armenian: թիւնէլ (tʻiwnēl)
  - → Ottoman Turkish: تونل (tünel), طونل (tünel)
    - Turkish: tünel
  - → Romanian: tunel
- → German: Tunnel
- → Greek: τούνελ (toúnel)
- → Italian: tunnel
- → Japanese: トンネル
- → Korean: 터널 (teoneol)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: tunnel, tunell
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: tunnel, tunell
- → Polish: tunel
- → Portuguese: túnel
- → Russian: тунне́ль (tunnélʹ)
  - → Kazakh: түнел (tünel)
- → Scottish Gaelic: tunail
- → Serbo-Croatian: tùnēl
- → Spanish: túnel
- → Swedish: tunnel
- → Uzbek: tunnel
French: tonnelle

References

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (tonnelle)