Toft
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, in England, Shetland and Schleswig-Holstein, Germany,, in Sweden and in Normandy, France,. Its root is Proto-Germanic
*tumftō ″site of a house, farm″, itself from Indo-European
*dm̥ptā́-, compound with the roots
*dm̥-, basis of
*dem- « house » +
*pt- < *pd- from
*ped- « foot », related to Latin
domus ″house″,
dominus ″master″,
dominium >
domain.
Toft may refer to...