Toil

Morpheme

Toil

Type

free base

Denotation

struggle, work hard, labor, exert, endeavor

Etymology

Middle English toilen, toylen; merger of (1) Anglo-Norman toiller; Old French toellier and (2) Middle English tilyen, telien, teolien, tolen, tolien, tulien; Old English tilian, telian, teolian

Evidence

toil, toiled, toiler, toiling, toils, toilsome