Toll

See also: toll

English

Alternative forms

• Tole, Toles

Etymology

• As an English surname, variant of Towle, Tole.
• As a German surname, from the adjective toll, meaning both "wonderful" and "crazy, mad." Also shortened from Bartholomäus.
• As a Dutch surname, variant of Tol, sometimes shortened from Van Toll.

Proper noun

Toll

1. A surname.

Low German

Etymology

From Middle Low German tol, from Old Saxon tol, from Proto-West Germanic *toll, from Proto-Germanic *tullaz. Related to German Zoll, Dutch tol, English toll.

Noun

Toll m (plural Töll)

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

Derived terms

• tollplichtig