Old English · noun
toll
- Part of speech
- noun, masculine / neuter
- Declension
- strong a-stem
- IPA
- /toll/[toɫ]
- Syllables
- toll (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- tolltaxfare
Meaning
-
tax, toll, fare
Declension
All forms (6)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *toll, *tolnu, from Proto-Germanic *tullaz, *tullō (“that which is counted or told, reckoning”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“calculation, fraud”). Alternate etymology derives toll from Proto-Germanic *tollą, from Vulgar Latin toloneum, from Late Latin teloneum, from Ancient Greek τελώνιον (telṓnion, “toll-house”), from τέλος (télos, “tax”). Germanic cognates include Old Saxon tol (Dutch tol), Old High German zol (German Zoll), Old Norse tollr (Swedish tull). See also parallel forms represented by Old English toln.
Descendants
toll
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