köken: With irregular t- (as in tausend) and widespread dialectal -ā- → -ō- from Middle High German dāhen, tāhen, inflected form of dāhe, tāhe, from Old High German thāha, dāha, tāha, from Proto-Germanic *þanhǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *tenk- (“to thicken, be solid”), related to *þinhtaz (“dense, tight”). Cognate with Old English þō, Old Norse þá, Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌷𐍉 (þāhō). The oldest spelling is Toh(e)n,…
tone; pitch (property of sound determined by the frequency) · tone (shade or quality of a colour) · tone (manner in which speech or writing is expressed)
çekim: çoğul tons
eş: segunda
köken: Probably a semi-learned borrowing from Latin tonus (and influenced by som; compare the Spanish ton, variant of the standard tono, which underwent a similar change, influenced by son, respectively), from Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “tone”), from τείνω (teínō, “to stretch”). Cf. also trom, a possible doublet.
köken: From Old Norse tóni, from Latin tonus (“sound, tone”), from Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos, “strain, tension, pitch”), from τείνω (teínō, “to stretch”).
intonation (the melodic curve of an utterance that expresses part of its content) · intonation, tone (the melodic contour on a specific syllable) · intonation (the smallest part of a melody that has expressive meaning; the performance of a music piece, with voice or instrument)
çekim: tamlayan intonācijas
eş: intonēšana
köken: Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Latin intonātio (a Medieval Latin formation), made into a 4th-declension feminine noun ( + -ācija).