toll – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of toll

Noun: toll
Gender: n

Nominative

Singulartoll
Pluraltoll; tollas

Genitive

Singulartolles
Pluraltolla

Dative

Singulartolle
Pluraltollum

Accusative

Singulartoll
Pluraltoll; tollas

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like toll

byrst, upfæreld, fenn, hord, toll,

Etymology

1. 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. 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”).
3. 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. See: Ancient Greek Nouns 'τελώνιον', Dutch Nouns 'tol', German Nouns 'Zoll', Old Norse Nouns 'tollr', Swedish Nouns 'tull', Old English Nouns 'toln'.

Verbs referencing "toll"

English Nouns toll, Middle English Nouns toll, Middle English Nouns tol, Middle English Nouns tolle.

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