towayle

• tawale, tewayll, touayl, towaile, towaille, towayl, twaile, twayle
• toual, towel, towell, towelle, towylle (Late Middle English)
• touwayl (Herefordshire); touel, towail, tueil, tuell (Northern, Northwest Midland); twaylle (Wiltshire)

From Old French toaille, from Early Medieval Latin toallia, from Frankish *þwahilu.

• IPA^(key): /tuːˈæi̯l(ə)/, /ˈtuːɛl(ə)/, /ˈtwæi̯l(ə)/

towayle (plural towayles)

1. A towel or washcloth; a cleaning cloth.
2. A cloth sieve or strainer.
3. A cloth cover; a protective cloth:
   1. A fabric tablecloth cover or protector.
   2. A drape for an altar or grave.
   3. A scarf; a cloth wrap for the neck.
   4. (surgery) A surgical cloth or cover.
   5. (rare) A fabric cover for communion wafers.

• English: towel (see there for further descendants)
• Middle Scots: towall, towell
  • Scots: toul, tool, tooel
• → Irish: tuáille

• “touail, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 July 2019.