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Tonal - What does it mean?

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tonal

English

Etymology 1

(wikipedia tonal)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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).
  • Antonyms
    * atonal

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Alternative forms

    * tona, tonalli

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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:
  • When a tonal suffers misfortune or death, the same thing happens to the person associated with it.
    See also
    * nahual

    Anagrams

    * * *

    Not English

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