tualett

Estonian

A toilet.

Etymology

Borrowed from German Toilette (“toilet”), from French toilette (“toilet; lavatory”), from both toile (“fabric; cloth”), from Old French toile (“fabric; web”), from earlier form teile, from Latin tēla (“web”), from Proto-Italic *tekslā, and the ending from -ette, feminine form of -et, from Middle French -et, from Old French -et, from Late Latin -ittus, from Proto-Italic *-tos, from Proto-Indo-European *-tós (suffix creating verbal adjectives).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuɑletː/

• Rhymes: -uɑletː
• Hyphenation: tu‧a‧lett

Noun

tualett (genitive tualeti, partitive tualetti)

1. a toilet (a room or enclosed area containing a toilet: a bathroom or water closet.)

   palun öelge, kus siin tualett on

   please tell me where the toilet is

2. (formal) a toilet (a woman's style of dressing: dress, outfit.) (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. toilet (personal grooming; the process of washing, dressing and arranging the hair.)

   hambapesule järgnes hommikune tualett

   tooth brushing was followed by the morning toilet

Declension

Declension of tualett (ÕS type 22e/riik, t-ø gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		tualett	tualetid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	tualeti
genitive			tualettide
partitive		tualetti	tualette tualettisid
illative		tualetti tualetisse	tualettidesse tualetesse
inessive		tualetis	tualettides tualetes
elative		tualetist	tualettidest tualetest
allative		tualetile	tualettidele tualetele
adessive		tualetil	tualettidel tualetel
ablative		tualetilt	tualettidelt tualetelt
translative		tualetiks	tualettideks tualeteks
terminative		tualetini	tualettideni
essive		tualetina	tualettidena
abessive		tualetita	tualettideta
comitative		tualetiga	tualettidega

Synonyms

• (toilet): kemmerg, kemps, veetsee, vets, WC, klosett, peldik, käimla, sitamaja, peller
• (bathroom): vannituba, väljakäik, hea koht, tualettruum, kullakamber

Derived terms

• tualettpaber (“toilet paper”), tualettpott (“toilet bowl”)

See also

• latriin (“outdoor toilet”)

References

• “tualett”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
• tualett in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “tualett”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “tualett”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN