toll – English noun declension

English noun forms of toll

Noun: toll
Singulartoll
Pluraltolls

Sample Sentences

  • Meanwhile, the tolls dispute had gone to the courts, and the E.L.R. was completely successful when, in 1856, the House of Lords awarded it the sum of £30,000 against the L.Y.R. for tolls overcharged. [1957 October 26, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 726:]
  • The war has taken its toll on the people.
  • toll ore refining; toll manufacturing
  • We can handle on a toll basis your needs for spray drying, repackaging, crushing and grinding, and dry blending.
  • We will be replacing some manned tolls with high-speed device readers.

Etymology

1. From Middle English toll, tol, tolle, from Old English toll m or n and toln f (“toll, duty, custom”), 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”).
2. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tol (“toll”), Dutch tol (“toll”), German Zoll (“toll, duty, customs”), Danish told (“toll, duty, tariff”), Swedish tull (“toll, customs”), Icelandic tollur (“toll, customs”). More at tell, tale.
3. Alternate etymology derives Old English toll from Medieval Latin tolōneum, tolōnium, alteration (due to the Germanic forms above) of Latin telōneum, from Ancient Greek τελώνιον (telṓnion, “toll-house”), from τέλος (télos, “tax”). See: Middle English Nouns 'toll', Old English Nouns 'toll', Dutch Nouns 'tol', German Nouns 'Zoll', Danish Nouns 'told', Swedish Nouns 'tull', Icelandic Nouns 'tollur', Old English Nouns 'toll', Latin Nouns 'telōneum', Ancient Greek Nouns 'τελώνιον'.

Verbs referencing "toll"

German Nouns Zoll.