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Toft is a placename and surname of Norse origin. Place-names ending in -toft are usually derivations of the Old Norse word topt meaning ″site of a house, farm″. As a place-name and place-name particle, it occurs in Denmark and Scania (as -toft[e]), in England,[1] Shetland and Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, (as -toft), in Sweden (as -tofta) and in Normandy, France, (as -tot). Its root is Proto-Germanic *tumftō ″site of a house, farm″, itself from Indo-European *dm̥ptā́-, compound (*dm̥-pt-ā́-) with the roots *dm̥-, basis of *dem(ǝ)- « house » + *pt- < *pd- from *ped- « foot », related to Latin domus ″house″, dominus ″master″, dominium > domain.[2]
Toft may refer to:
People
- Surname
- Albert Toft (1862-1949), English sculptor
- Arve Toft (born 1966), Norwegian trade unionist
- Claude Toft (1922–1981) Irish politician and Mayor of Galway
- Henrik Toft (born 1981), Danish professional football player
- Henry Toft (1909–1987), English rugby union international (a.k.a. Herbert Toft, Bert Toft or H B Toft)
- Juergen Toft (born 1943), German physician
- Karl Toft, Canadian sex offender
- Malcolm Toft, English audio engineer
- Mary Toft (1701–1763), English woman involved in a medical hoax
- Omar Toft (1886-1921), American racecar driver
- Rolf Toft (born 1992), Danish footballer
- Sandra Toft (born 1989), Danish handball player
- Thomas Toft (d.1698), English potter
- C. A. Toft, binomial authority, has named a toad
- Given name
- Henrik Toft Hansen (born 1986), Danish handball player
- Rene Toft Hansen (born 1984), Danish handball player
- Poul Toft Jensen (1912–2000), Danish amateur football player
Places
- England
Lowestoft, Suffolk
- Toft, Cambridgeshire
- Toft, Cheshire
- Toft, Lincolnshire
- Toft, Warwickshire
- Toft Hill, County Durham
- Toft Monks, Norfolk
- Toft Newton, Lincolnshire
- Norway
- Toft, Nordland, a village in Brønnøy, Norway
- Scotland
References
- ↑ Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names (4th edition), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1960, p. 287b and 476b.
- ↑ Dominique Fournier, « Élément -tot », Wikimanche
See also
- Burgage
- Theatre on Film and Tape Archives (TOFT) of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
- Toft village
- Tofte (disambiguation)
- Tufte (disambiguation)
- Tufts
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