Tonalli vs Tonal - What's the difference?
tonalli | tonal | Alternative forms |
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:
Tonalli is an alternative form of tonal.
As nouns the difference between tonalli and tonal
is that tonalli is the heat of the sun while tonal is an animal companion which accompanies a person from birth to death.As a adjective tonal is
of or relating to tones or tonality.tonalli
Not English
Tonalli has no English definition. It may be misspelled.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.