Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/tolnu

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly derived from Proto-Germanic *tullaz (“that which is counted, reckoning”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol- (“calculation”). Alternatively a borrowing from Latin telōnēum (“toll booth, custom house”).

Noun

*tolnu f

toll

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*tolnu
Genitive	*tolnā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*tolnu	*tolnō
Accusative	*tolnā	*tolnā
Genitive	*tolnā	*tolnō
Dative	*tolnē	tolnōm, tolnum
Instrumental	*tolnu	tolnōm, tolnum

Related terms

*toll

Descendants

Note: Most daughter languages conflated the descendants of *tolnu and *toll.

Old English: toln
- Middle English: toln, tolne
  - English: tolne (obsolete)
  - Scots: tolne, tholone, tholonie
Old Frisian: tolne, tolene
- West Frisian: tol m or f
Old Saxon: tolna; toln m
- Middle Low German: toln, tolne, tollen, tolen, tolent, tollent m
Old Dutch: *tolna
- Middle Dutch: tolne, toolne, toelne
Old High German: *zolna; *zoln m
- Middle High German: zoln m; zol m or f

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