Low German

Noun

Toll m ‎(plural Töll)

1. custom (duty collected at the borders)
2. authority collecting that duty (customs)
3. toll

Derived terms

• tollplichtig

English

Noun

toll ‎(plural tolls)

1. Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.

   The war has taken its toll on the people.‎

2. 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.
3. (business) A fee for using any kind of material processing service.

   We can handle on a toll basis your needs for spray drying, repackaging, crushing and grinding, and dry blending.‎

4. (US) A tollbooth.

   We will be replacing some manned tolls with high-speed device readers.‎

5. (Britain, law, obsolete) A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
6. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.

Derived terms

Translations

References

1. ↑ Whitney, The Century dictionary and cyclopedia, toll.

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.

   Once more it is proposed to toll the East River bridges.‎

2. (transitive, intransitive) To levy a toll on (someone or something).
   • Shakespeare

     No Italian priest / Shall tithe or toll in our dominions.‎

3. (transitive) To take as a toll.
4. To pay a toll or tallage.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

Translations

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 tolling

Translations

Verb

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

1. (ergative) To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.

   Martin tolled the great bell every day.‎

   Ask not for whom the bell tolls.‎

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 12, The Cyclops

     From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.‎

2. (transitive) To summon by ringing a bell.

   The ringer tolled the workers back from the fields for vespers.‎

   • Dryden

     When hollow murmurs of their evening bells / Dismiss the sleepy swains, and toll them to their cells.‎

3. (transitive) To announce by tolling.

   The bells tolled the King’s death.‎

   • Beattie

     Slow tolls the village clock the drowsy hour.‎

Derived terms

• toller

Translations

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.

   Hou many virgins shal she tolle and drawe to þe Lord - "Life of Our Lady"‎

4. (transitive) To lure with bait (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.

   The statute of limitations defense was tolled as a result of the defendant’s wrongful conduct.‎

Translations

Catalan

Noun

toll m ‎(plural tolls)

1. pool, puddle

German

Etymology

From Old High German tol, from Proto-Germanic *dulaz ‎(“dazed, foolish, crazy, stupid”), cognate with English dull. More at dull.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔl/

Adjective

toll ‎(comparative toller, superlative am tollsten)

1. great, nice, wonderful
2. (dated) crazy, mad

Declension

Derived terms

• supertoll
• Tollheit
• Tollwut

Related terms

• doll

See also

• cool
• geil

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *tulka ‎(“feather, wing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtolː] (It is important to pronounce it with a long l, otherwise it will sound like tol ‎(“to push”).)

Noun

toll ‎(plural tollak)

1. feather
2. pen

Declension

Derived terms

• írótoll
• tollas
• tolltartó

Icelandic

Noun

toll

1. indefinite accusative singular of tollur

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪ˠoːl̪ˠ/, /t̪ˠɔl̪ˠ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish toll ‎(“hole, hollow; buttocks, hindquarters”).

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”).

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”).

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

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

• tolldeklarasjon
• tollfri

References

• “toll” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Late Latin teloneum and Old Norse tollr

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

• 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

Noun

toll n

1. tax, toll, fare

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Old Irish toll ‎(“hole, hollow; buttocks, hindquarters”).

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”)

Etymology 2

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

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

Ter Sami

Etymology

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

Noun

toll

1. fire