toil

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.
2. (countable, uncountable) Trouble, strife.
3. (countable, plural-normally, uncountable) A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To labour; work.
2. (intransitive) To struggle.
3. (transitive) To work (something); often with out.
4. (transitive) To weary through excessive labour.

Konzepte

Mühe

Arbeit

schuften

Mühsal

Anstrengung

Plackerei

sich abmühen

Leistung

harte Arbeit

quälen

körperliche Arbeit

sich plagen

Bemühung

Einsatz

Aufgabe

Sorge

Strapaze

sich quälen

malochen

plagen

Ermüdung

Erschöpfung

Beanspruchung

mühevolle Arbeit

Ausübung

Plage

Synonyme

labor

labour

work

work hard

hard work

trouble

drudge

travail

effort

exertion

fatigue

moil

sweat

😓

hardship

fag

labour

drudgery

slave

struggle

suffer

labor

endeavor

manual labor

pains

slave away

strive

be industrious

striving

grub

swot

be diligent

grind

graft

dig

take pains

task

toilsome

trap

🪤

try

unpleasantness

wretchedness

donkeywork

exert oneself

glower at

make effort

nisus

take trouble

try hard

work very hard

laborious task

Übersetzungen

fatica

labeur

travail

labor

trabalho

labuta

arbeid

treball

κόπος

μόχθος

peine

lavoro

peiner

remar

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/tɔɪl/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: toilen, toylen

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: tilyen, telien, teolien, tolen, tolien, tulien

Geerbt von Altenglisch: tilian, telian, teolian, tiolian

Verwandt mit Mittelniederländisch: tuylen, teulen

Verwandt mit Schottisch: tulyie

Verwandt mit Old Frisian: teula

Verwandt mit Niederländisch: tuil

In summary

From Middle English toilen, toylen, apparently a conflation of Anglo-Norman toiller (“to agitate, stir up, entangle”) (compare Old Northern French tooillier, tooullier (“to agitate, stir”); of unknown origin), and Middle English tilyen, telien, teolien, tolen, tolien, tulien (“to till, work, labour”), from Old English tilian, telian, teolian, tiolian (“to exert oneself, toil, work, make, generate, strive after, try, endeavor, procure, obtain, gain, provide, tend, cherish, cultivate, till, plough, trade, traffic, aim at, aspire to, treat, cure”) (compare Middle Dutch tuylen, teulen (“to till, work, labour”)), from Proto-Germanic *tilōną (“to strive, reach for, aim for, hurry”). Cognate with Scots tulyie (“to quarrel, flite, contend”).
An alternate etymology derives Middle English toilen, toylen directly from Middle Dutch tuylen, teulen (“to work, labour, till”), from tuyl ("agriculture, labour, toil"; > Modern Dutch tuil (“toil; work”)). Cognate with Old Frisian teula (“to labour, toil”), teule (“labour, work”), Dutch tuil (“toil, labour”). Compare also Dutch telen (“to grow; raise; cultivate, till”). More at till.