tualett

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).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuɑletː/

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

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

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

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

• latriin (“outdoor toilet”)

• “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