Etymology

tollbar

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Today it means: A barrier across a toll road or toll bridge that is lifted when the toll is paid. Full definition →

English bar ← Middle English barre ← Old French barre
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic*toll
  2. Proto-Germanic*tullazder.?
  3. Proto-West Germanic*tolnu
  4. Old Englishtoll
  5. Proto-West Germanic*tolnu
  6. Old Englishtoln
  7. Middle Englishtoll
  8. Englishtoll
  9. Vulgar Latin*barra
  10. Old Frenchbarre
  11. Middle Englishbarre
  12. Englishbar
  13. English todaytollbar

From toll + bar.

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