tona.
film (solid or opaque layer on a liquid)
Meaning & usage
film (solid or opaque layer on a liquid)
rind (of a vegetable, of cheese)
bark
surface or upper layer of the soil
Where this word comes from
From Old Galician-Portuguese tona (attested since the 14th century in Galician texts). From a local Celtic substrate language, from Proto-Celtic *tonnā or *tondā (“skin”); from Proto-Indo-European *tend-, from *temh₂- (“to cut”). Compare Portuguese tona and Old Irish tonn (“skin, surface”).
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