toll

toll

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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /təʊl/, /tɒl/
    • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [t(ʰ)əʊ̯ɫ], [t(ʰ)ɒɫ]
    • (Standard Southern British) IPA(key): [tʰɔwɫ], [tʰɔɫ]
    • (Canada) IPA(key): [t(ʰ)oːɫ], [t(ʰ)ɔ(ː)ɫ]
    • (US) IPA(key): [tʰo(ʊ̯)ɫ], [tʰɑ(ː)ɫ]
  • Rhymes: -əʊl
  • Homophone: tole

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 *dol- (“calculation, fraud”).

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.

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”).

Noun

toll (plural tolls)

  1. A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc.
  2. Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
  3. A fee paid by the owner of materials or other goods for processing such goods, as under a tolling agreement.
    toll ore refining; toll manufacturing
  4. (business, by extension) A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
  5. (US) A tollbooth.
  6. (UK, law, obsolete) A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
  7. (obsolete, regional England) A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

toll (third-person singular simple present tolls, present participle tolling, simple past and past participle tolled)

  1. (transitive) To impose a fee for the use of.
  2. (ambitransitive) To levy a toll on (someone or something).
  3. (transitive) To take as a toll.
  4. To pay a toll or tallage.
Translations

References

Etymology 2

Probably the same as Etymology 3. Possibly related to or influenced by toil

Noun

toll (plural tolls)

  1. The act or sound of ringing a bell, especially slowly, as with a church or cemetery bell.
Translations

Verb

toll (third-person singular simple present tolls, present participle tolling, simple past and past participle tolled)

  2. (ergative) To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
  3. (transitive) To summon by ringing a bell.
  4. (transitive) To announce by ringing a bell.
  5. (figuratively) To make a sound as if made by a bell.
Derived terms
  • toller
Translations

Usage notes

A tolling bell refers to a slow sound, as at a funeral, while the tocsin refers to a fast sound, as in alarm.

Etymology 3

From Middle English tolen, tollen, variation of tullen, tillen (“to draw, allure, entice”), from Old English *tyllan, *tillan (“to pull, draw, attract”) (found in compounds fortyllan (“to seduce, lead astray, draw away from the mark, deceive”) and betyllan, betillan (“to lure, decoy”)), related to Old Frisian tilla (“to lift, raise”), Dutch tillen (“to lift, raise, weigh, buy”), Low German tillen (“to lift, remove”), Swedish dialectal tille (“to take up, appropriate”).

Alternative forms

  • tole, toal

Verb

toll (third-person singular simple present tolls, present participle tolling, simple past and past participle tolled)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To draw; pull; tug; drag.
  2. (transitive) To tear in pieces.
  3. (transitive) To draw; entice; invite; allure.
  4. (transitive) To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).
Synonyms
  • (to lure animals): bait, lure
Translations

Etymology 4

From Latin tollō (“to lift up”).

Verb

toll (third-person singular simple present tolls, present participle tolling, simple past and past participle tolled)

  1. (law, obsolete) To take away; to vacate; to annul.
  2. (law) To suspend.
Translations

Etymology 5

Verb

toll

  1. (African-American Vernacular) simple past and past participle of tell

References

  • “toll”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “toll”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

See also

  • toll gene, toll-like (etymologically unrelated to the above)

Catalan

Etymology

Probably from Proto-Celtic *tullom, *tullos (“hole”). (Compare Irish toll, Welsh twll, both meaning "hole" and Asturian tollu meaning "quagmire".)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtoʎ]

Noun

toll m (plural tolls)

  1. pool, puddle

References

  • “toll”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
  • “toll” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cornish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *tull, from Proto-Celtic *tullos (“hollow”). Cognate with Welsh twll.

Noun

toll m (plural tell)

  1. hole, opening
  2. orifice
  3. burrow
  4. (low-class bar) dive
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English toll.

Noun

toll f (plural tollow)

  1. toll, tax, customs
  2. (taxation) duty
  3. (charge) rate
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Related to Welsh twyll; both possibly from Latin tēla.

Noun

toll m

  1. deceit, fraud, disappointment
Derived terms

Mutation

German

Etymology

From Middle High German tol, from Old High German tol, from Proto-West Germanic *dol, from Proto-Germanic *dulaz (“dazed, foolish, crazy, stupid”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɔl/, [tʰɔl]

Adjective

toll (strong nominative masculine singular toller, comparative toller, superlative am tollsten)

  1. (colloquial) great, nice, wonderful
    Synonyms: cool, geil
    ‚Katjuscha‘ ist ein tolles Lied. ― ‘Katyusha’ is a great song.
  2. (dated) crazy, mad
    Synonym: verrückt

Declension

Derived terms

  • supertoll
  • Tollheit
  • Tollwut

Related terms

  • doll

Further reading

  • “toll” in Duden online
  • “toll” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *tulka.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtolː]
  • Rhymes: -olː

Noun

toll (plural tollak)

  1. feather (a branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display)
  2. feather (a feather-like fin or wing on objects, such as an arrow)
  3. pen (a tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks)
  4. (figuratively) pen (a writer, or his style)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

  • toll in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Icelandic

Noun

toll

  1. indefinite accusative singular of tollur

Irish

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /t̪ˠoːl̪ˠ/
  • (Galway) IPA(key): /t̪ˠəul̪ˠ/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /t̪ˠʌl̪ˠ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish toll (“hole, hollow; buttocks, hindquarters”), from Proto-Celtic *tullos (“hollow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”). Cognate with Welsh twll.

Noun

toll m (genitive singular toill, nominative plural toill)

  1. hole, hollow
  2. posterior, buttocks
Declension
Derived terms
  • tollán (“tunnel”)
  • tollmhór (“big-bottomed; bumptious”)

Etymology 2

From Old Irish toll (“pierced, perforated; hollow, empty”). See Etymology 1 above.

Adjective

toll (genitive singular masculine toill, genitive singular feminine toille, plural tolla, comparative toille)

  1. pierced, perforated
  2. hollow, empty; (of voice) deep, hollow
Declension

Etymology 3

From Old Irish tollaid (“pierces; penetrates”). See Etymology 1 above.

Verb

toll (present analytic tollann, future analytic tollfaidh, verbal noun tolladh, past participle tollta)

  1. to bore, to pierce, to perforate
Conjugation
Derived terms
  • tolladóir (“borer, piercer, perforator”)
  • tollbhealach (“adit”)
  • tollchárta (“punch-card”)
  • tolltach (“piercing, penetrating”)

Mutation

References

Jamtish

Etymology

From Old Norse þǫll, from Proto-Norse *ᚦᚨᛚᚢ (*þallu), from Proto-Germanic *þallō. Cognate with Swedish tall, Icelandic þöll.

Pronunciation

  • (Brunflo, Hällesjö) IPA(key): [¹t̪ʰɔl̪ː]
  • (Berg) IPA(key): [¹t̪ʰɞ̞l̪ː]
  • (Stugun) IPA(key): [¹t̪ʰol̪ː]
  • (Fors) IPA(key): [¹t̪ʰɒl̪ː]

Noun

toll m

  1. pine, Scots pine tree, Pinus sylvestris

Declension

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English toll, from Proto-Germanic *tullō.

Alternative forms

  • tol, tolle, thol, toale, theol

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɔl/, /tɔːl/

Noun

toll (plural tolles)

  2. A toll, tax, or charge.
  3. The privilege to levy fees or charges.
  4. A waiver from any fees or charges.
  5. (rare) taxation, payment.
  6. (rare) An edge, point of difference
Related terms
  • tolboth
  • tollen
  • toller
  • tolsey
  • tollynge
Descendants
  • English: tool
  • Scots: towl
References
  • “tol, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-03.

Etymology 2

Verb

toll

  2. alternative form of tollen (“to bring”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Late Latin teloneum and Old Norse tollr.

Noun

toll m (definite singular tollen, indefinite plural toller, definite plural tollene)

  1. duty (customs duty, excise duty)
  2. customs
    gå gjennom tollen ― to go through customs

Derived terms

  • tollbarriere
  • tollbod
  • tolldeklarasjon
  • tollfri

References

  • “toll” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse þǫll, from Proto-Norse *ᚦᚨᛚᚢ (*þallu), from Proto-Germanic *þallō. Cognate with Jamtish toll, Icelandic þöll.

Alternative forms

  • tall

Noun

toll f (definite singular tolla, indefinite plural toller, definite plural tollene)

  1. (young) pine
    Synonym: fure
  2. soft pine wood
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse tollr, from Middle Low German tol, from Old Saxon tolna, from Medieval Latin toloneum.

Noun

toll m (definite singular tollen, indefinite plural tollar, definite plural tollane)

  1. duty (customs duty, excise duty)
  2. customs
    gå gjennom tollen ― to go through customs
Derived terms
  • tollbarriere
  • tolldeklarasjon
  • tollfri

References

  • “toll” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /toll/, [toɫ]

Noun

toll n

  1. tax, toll, fare

Derived terms

  • tollere

Descendants

  • Middle English: toll
    • English: toll
    • Scots: towl

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tullos (“hollow”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tol͈]

Adjective

toll

  1. pierced, leaky

Declension

Noun

toll m

  1. hole, hollow
  2. fault, want

Declension

Descendants

  • Irish: toll
  • Manx: towl
  • Scottish Gaelic: toll

Mutation

Further reading

  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 toll”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 toll”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t̪ʰɔul̪ˠ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish toll (“hole, hollow; buttocks, hindquarters”), from Proto-Celtic *tullos (“pierced, hollow”), see also Middle Low German stoken (“to stab, to prickle”), German stochern (“to pick, to poke”), Sanskrit दति (tudáti, “to push, to strike, to jab, to pierce”).

Noun

toll m (genitive singular tuill, plural tuill)

  1. hole, cavity, puncture, hollow
  2. crevice, perforation
  3. pit
  4. socket
  5. (nautical) hold of a ship
  6. (vulgar) arse
Derived terms
  • gaoth tro tholl (“draught”)
  • toll-putain (“buttonhole”)
  • tolltach (“full of holes”)

References

Etymology 2

From Old Irish tollaid (“pierces; penetrates”), from toll (“hole, hollow”). See Etymology 1 above.

Verb

toll (past tholl, future tollaidh, verbal noun tolladh, past participle tollte)

  1. bore, piece, drill, perforate

Skolt Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *tolë, from Proto-Uralic *tule.

Noun

toll

  1. fire

Inflection

Further reading

  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎[3], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Ter Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *tolë, from Proto-Uralic *tule.

Noun

toll

  1. fire

Further reading

  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎[4], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

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