toalla
/toˈaʝa/ · B1 · noun · f
towel
🧺 toalla and towel are cousins: both come from Old French toaille
Spanish toalla and English towel share one root: Frankish thwahlja, meaning a cloth for washing, which became Old French toaille. Drop the w from towel, keep the double l, and you get to-A-ya. The ll sounds like y.