different between toft vs tolt

English

Etymology

From Old Norse toft, from Proto-Germanic *tumþiz, from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“to build”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ft

Noun

toft (plural tofts)

1. A hillock.
2. A homestead, especially one on a hill.
   • 2003, C. S. Knighton (editor), Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous (Chancery): Preserved in the Public Record Office, Volume VIII: 1422—1485, page 73,

     Wynnemerus Preston lately held 2 cottages wasted of which the tofts are worth 2d. net yearly and another cottage wasted of which the toft is worth 6d. net yearly.
3. A messuage with right of common.

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??ft/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse toft, from Proto-Germanic *tumft?.

Noun

toft f (genitive singular toftar, plural toftir)

1. an old foundation
2. ruin of a building

Declension

Derived terms

• brunatoft
• húsatoft
• hústoft
• kirkjutoft
• neystatoft

Etymology 2

From Old Norse þofta, see also tofta.

Alternative forms

• tofta

Noun

toft f (genitive singular toftar, plural toftir)

1. (dialectal) the forward thwart

Declension

Derived terms

• rangatoft
• rongutoft
• rættatoft

English

Etymology 1

From Latin tolta, from tollere (“to take away”).

Noun

tolt (plural tolts)

1. (Britain, law, obsolete) A writ by which a cause pending in a court baron was removed into a county court.
   • 1956, Theodore Plucknett, A Concise History of the Common Law, Butterworth & Co, page 104:

     ... for a plea pending in a seignorial court could be removed into the county court by a procedure called tolt, and from the county into the common pleas by a writ of pone.

Etymology 2

Noun

tolt (plural tolts)

1. Alternative form of tölt

Verb

tolt (third-person singular simple present tolts, present participle tolting, simple past and past participle tolted)

1. Alternative form of tölt

Etymology 3

Verb

tolt

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

   I done tolt you for the last time.

Anagrams

• Lott

Catalan

Verb

tolt

1. past participle of toldre

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

tolt

1. supine of tole

Participle

tolt (definite singular and plural tolte)

1. past participle of tole