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語源 1

From tone +‎ -al.

形容詞

tonal (comparative more tonal, superlative most tonal)

1. Of or relating to tones or tonality.
   • 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 358:

     Songs for the family-table on Sabbaths and holidays—songs which give those various holy days tonal expression and which aim to spiritualize the meals.

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:

     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).

反意語

• atonal

派生語

関連する語

• tonality
• tonally

語源 2

From Nahuatl tōnalli (“day, day sign”).

別の表記

• tona

名詞

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.

関連する語

• tonalli

参考

• nahual

アナグラム

• Alton, Laton, Talon, Tolan, Tolna, laton, notal, talon