Toll
Old English (denoting a charge, tax, or duty), from medieval Latin toloneum, alteration of late Latin teloneum, from Greek telōnion ‘toll house’, from telos ‘tax’. toll1 (sense 2 of the noun) (late 19th century) arose from the notion of paying a toll or tribute in human lives (to an adversary or to death).
wiktionary
From Middle English toll, tol, tolle, from Old English tol, toll, toln(“toll, duty, custom”), from Proto-Germanic *tullō(“what is counted or told”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol-(“calculation, fraud”) [1]. 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”).
Probably the same as Etymology 3. Possibly related to or influenced by toil
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”).
From Latin tollō(“to lift up”).
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toll (n.)
"tax, fee," Old English toll "impost, tribute, passage-money, rent," variant of toln, cognate with Old Norse tollr, Old Frisian tolen, Old High German zol, German Zoll, probably representing an early Germanic borrowing from Late Latin tolonium "custom house."
The Germanic words probably are borrowed from Latin telonium "tollhouse," from Greek teloneion "tollhouse," from telones "tax-collector," from telos "duty, tax, expense, cost," from suffixed form of PIE root *tele- "to lift, support, weigh" (see extol) For sense, compare finance. On another theory it is native Germanic and related to tell (v.) on the notion of "that which is counted." Originally in a general sense of "payment exacted by an authority;" meaning "charge for right of passage along a road" is from late 15c.
toll (v.)
"to sound with slow single strokes" (intransitive), mid-15c., probably a special use of tollen "to draw, lure," early 13c. variant of Old English -tyllan in betyllan "to lure, decoy," and fortyllan "draw away, seduce," of obscure origin. The notion is perhaps of "luring" people to church with the sound of the bells, or of "drawing" on the bell rope. Transitive sense from late 15c. Related: Tolled; tolling. The noun meaning "a stroke of a bell" is from mid-15c.
