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Objectivist
2658
That's interesting. I'm German and I've never seen 'Ton' referred to as clay. I've looked it up though, and it's indeed correct.
jon-dan
308
I would say: "At the sound of the bell". On the other hand: "The bell has a very deep tone". I believe "tone" implies a type of sound, not the sound itself.
Myrrha01
45
You forgot to add the function of an object in a sentence as being the entity that is acted upon by a subject.
-Copernicus-
2048
Wiktionary says the two senses are unrelated. The "sound" version of "Ton" is from Latin, and the "clay" version is Germanic (so I suppose it's a coincidence that they became the same word). The "sound" version was borrowed into English as well, and the "clay" version wasn't.