- tot (n.)
- "little child," 1725, Scottish, of uncertain origin, perhaps a shortened form of totter, or related to Old Norse tottr, nickname of a dwarf (cf. Swedish tutte "little child," Danish tommel-tot "little child," in which the first element means "thumb").
- tot (v.)
- "to reckon up," 1760, from tot (n.), first recorded 1680s, short for total.