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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), in Iceland (as -tótt) 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 (1936–2018), 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 (died 1698), English potter
- Mathilde Rivas Toft (born 1997), Norwegian handballer who plays for Larvik HK
- Alfonso Toft (1866–1964), English pottery artist
- Christian Toft (born 1968), Danish swimmer, Summer Olympics, 1988
- Harry Toft (1881–1951), Welsh rugby player
- Monica Toft, American international relations scholar
- Robert Toft, Canadian music researcher and vocal coach
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
- 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
Other uses
- Toft Cricket Club, an amateur cricket club that was founded in 1928
- Toft Hall, a 17th-century country house in Toft, Cheshire, England
- Toft Monks Priory, a priory in Norfolk, England
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, a medieval land term used in England and Wales, Ireland and Scotland
- Theatre on Film and Tape Archives (TOFT) of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
- Toft village, a settlement comprising small, closely packed farms (tofts)
- Tofte (disambiguation)
- Tufte (disambiguation)
- Toft Hill (disambiguation)
- Tuft (disambiguation)
- Randall (given name)
- Tufts
- Hans Toft (born 1947), Mayor of Gentofte Municipality
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