tyle

tyle (third-person singular simple present tyles, present participle tyling, simple past and past participle tyled)

1. Alternative form of tile (to protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated)

• tyle-berry

• -lyte

• tele

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *toli, reshaped under influence of ile. First attested in the 15th century.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /tɨlʲɛ/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /tɨlʲɛ/

tyle

1. used to indicate that an amount or number equals something in the following or previous utterance; this much, this many; as many as; as much as
2. emphasizes the intensity of an action; so
3. emphasizes a high amount or number; so many, so much

• Polish: tyle, tyla (Near Masovian)
• Silesian: tela, tyla

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “tyle”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
• Mańczak, Witold (2017) “tyle”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “tyle”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

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• Rhymes: -ɘlɛ
• Syllabification: ty‧le

Inherited from Old Polish tyle.

tyle (uncomparable)

1. used to indicate that an amount or number equals something in the following or previous utterance; this much, this many; as many as; as much as [with genitive]
2. emphasizes a high or low amount or number; so many, so much [with genitive]

• tyla (Near Masovian)

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), tyle is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 7 times in scientific texts, 1 time in news, 7 times in essays, 34 times in fiction, and 34 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 83 times, making it the 776th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[1]

tyle

1. (colloquial) used to signal that one has exhausted the topic and is finished talking about something

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tyle m inan

1. locative/vocative singular of tył

• tyle I in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tyle II in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tyle in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “tyle”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “TYLE”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 21.05.2012
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “tyle”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “tyle”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “tyle”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 185
• tyle in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

• IPA^(key): [ˈtiʎe]

tyle

1. locative singular of tylo

• IPA^(key): /ˈtəlɛ/

tyle m (plural tyleau)

1. (South Wales) steep (upward) road or path; steep gradient or slope.

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “tyle”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies