Etymology

toft

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Today it means: A hillock. Full definition →

Old Norse toft ← Proto-Germanic *tumþiz ← Proto-Indo-European *dem-
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  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*dem-“to build”
  2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*tumþiz
  3. Old Norse · derived fromtoft
  4. English todaytoft

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

Words from the same roots

Proto-Indo-European*dem- all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.