Monal vs Tonal - What's the difference?
monal | tonal |
Of or relating to tones or tonality.
(music) Employing tones that have a predictable relationship to some tonic.
(linguistics) Employing differences in pitch (tones) to distinguish differences in the meaning of otherwise similar words (words which would otherwise be homophonic).
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:
As nouns the difference between monal and tonal
is that monal is any of three species of pheasant in the genus Lophophorus while tonal is an animal companion which accompanies a person from birth to death.As an adjective tonal is
of or relating to tones or tonality.monal
English
(wikipedia monal) (Lophophorus)Derived terms
{{der3, Chinese monal , Himalayan monal , Sclater's monal}}Anagrams
*tonal
English
Etymology 1
(wikipedia tonal)Adjective
(en adjective)Antonyms
* atonalEtymology 2
From (etyl)Alternative forms
* tona, tonalliNoun
(en noun)- When a tonal suffers misfortune or death, the same thing happens to the person associated with it.