tooth
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-ónts
Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts
Proto-Germanic *tanþs
Proto-West Germanic *tanþ
Old English tōþ
Middle English toth
English tooth
From Middle English toth, tothe, tooth, from Old English tōþ, from Proto-West Germanic *tanþ, from Proto-Germanic *tanþs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“tooth”). Doublet of dent, dens, tind, and tine. Related to tusk.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots tuith (“tooth”), North Frisian Ter, teän, tosch, toske, tuis, tus, tusch, täis (“tooth”), Saterland Frisian Tusk (“tooth”), West Frisian tosk (“tooth”), Bavarian Zåhn (“tooth”), Dutch tand (“tooth”), German Zahn (“tooth”), Limburgish tandj (“tooth”), Luxembourgish Zant (“tooth”), Vilamovian cōn (“tooth”), Yiddish צאָן (tson, “tooth”), Danish and Swedish tand (“tooth”), Faroese tonn (“tooth”), Icelandic tönn (“tooth”), Norn *tann, *tant (“tooth”), Norwegian Bokmål tann (“tooth”), Norwegian Nynorsk tann, tonn (“tooth”), Breton and Welsh dant (“tooth”), Cornish dans (“tooth”), Irish déad (“tooth”), Scottish Gaelic deud (“tooth”), Asturian, Leonese, Mirandese, and Spanish diente (“tooth”), Aragonese dien (“tooth”), Catalan and French dent (“tooth”), Galician, Italian, and Portuguese dente (“tooth”), Romanian dinte (“tooth”), Latin dēns (“tooth”), Ancient Greek ὀδούς (odoús), ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”), Lithuanian dantis (“tooth”), Belarusian дзясна́ (dzjasná, “gum”), Bulgarian and Russian десна (desna, “gum”), Czech dáseň (“gum”), Polish dziąsło (“gum”), Serbo-Croatian dȇsni (“gum”), Slovak ďasno (“gum”), Slovene dlesni (“gum”), Ukrainian я́сна (jásna, “gum”), Armenian ատամ (atam, “tooth”), Ossetian дӕндаг (dændag, “tooth”), Baluchi دنتان (dantán), دتھاں (datʰāⁿ, “tooth”), Central Kurdish ددان (ddan, “tooth”), Northern Kurdish didan, diran (“tooth”), Persian دندان (dandân, “tooth”), Sanskrit दत् (dat), दन्त (danta, “tooth”).
Inflected forms:
form: teeth
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tooths
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: toothing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: toothed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: toothed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for biting and chewing food.
pos: noun
examples: tooth decay
gloss: A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.
pos: noun
gloss: A projection on the edge of a gear that meshes with similar projections on adjacent gears, or on the circumference of a cog that engages with a chain.
pos: noun
gloss: Of a rope, the stickiness when in contact with another rope as in a knot.
pos: noun
examples: Jute has more tooth than polypropylene.
gloss: A projection or point in other parts of the body resembling the tooth of a vertebrate animal.
pos: noun
examples: Species XXXVI. Obliquaria bullata— (Unio bullata) […] Found at the falls of Ohio; rare; breadth almost two inches; cardinal and lamellar teeth like preceding species; apices rounded, decorticated, but not truncated
gloss: A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.
pos: noun
gloss: The rough surface of some kinds of cel or other films that allows better adhesion of artwork.
pos: noun
gloss: Liking, fondness (compare toothsome).
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: I have a sweet tooth: I love sugary treats.
These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth
gloss: An irreducible component of a comb that intersects the handle in exactly one point, that point being distinct from the unique point of intersection for any other tooth of the comb.
pos: noun
gloss: To provide or furnish with teeth.
pos: verb
examples: His Wife sate near him, teasing matted wool, / While, from the twin cards toothed with glittering wire / He fed the spindle […]
gloss: To indent; to jag.
pos: verb
examples: to tooth a saw
gloss: To lock into each other, like gear wheels.
pos: verb
examples: Whereas if the Header of one side of the wall, toothed as much as the Stretcher on the other side, it would be a stronger Toothing, and the joints of the Header on one side, would be in the middle of the Headers of the course they lie upon of the other side
Synonyms: fang
tooth
toothypeg
Related words: bicuspid
canine
cuspid
dental
dentist
dentistry
denture
fang
incisor
molar
orling
premolar
prong
tine
tusk
Derived words: acro-dermato-ungual-lacrimal-tooth syndrome
axle tooth
baby tooth
back tooth
bigtooth
black tooth
bleeding tooth fungus
Bluetooth
bucktooth
butter tooth
canine tooth
cheektooth
cheek tooth
clean as a hound's tooth
colt's tooth
corner tooth
cracked tooth syndrome
daggertooth
deciduous tooth
dog's tooth violet
dog-tooth
dogtooth
dog tooth
egg tooth
elephant's tooth
eye-tooth
eyetooth
eye tooth
fangtooth
fight tooth and nail
fine-tooth comb
fine-tooth comb test
foretooth
front-toothless
gagtooth
give an eye-tooth
gobber tooth
hag's tooth
hen's tooth
hog-tooth spar
houndstooth
intertooth
jawtooth
jelly tooth
long in the tooth
megatooth shark
milk tooth
milk-tooth
mill tooth
molar tooth
multitooth
not to put a tooth in it
old in the tooth
old woman's tooth
permanent tooth
picktooth
pivot tooth
primary tooth
pseudotooth
puppytooth
purple tooth
rabbit tooth
red in tooth and claw
retooth
sabertooth
sabre-tooth
salty tooth
saw tooth
saw-tooth
sawtooth
scissor tooth
shark's tooth
sharptooth
snaggletooth
snaggle-tooth
sour tooth
spicy tooth
sweet tooth
teethe
temporary tooth
threetooth
toothache
toothaching
toothake
tooth and claw
tooth-and-nail
tooth and nail
tooth and nail syndrome
tooth and tong
toothbill
tooth-billed pigeon
toothblack
tooth-bottle
toothbrush
toothbrusher
toothcare
toothcarp
toothcomb
tooth-comb
tooth comb
tooth decay
tooth-drawer
toothdrawer
toothdrawing
tooth duller
tooth enamel
toother
toothette
tooth fairy
toothfish
toothful
tooth fungus
tooth hurty
toothie
tooth key
toothleaf
toothless
toothlet
toothlike
toothly
toothmark
tooth mark
tooth mug
toothmug
tooth net
tooth ornament
tooth pad
toothpaste
toothpick
toothpicker
toothplate
tooth powder
toothproof
toothpuller
toothrow
tooth shell
tooth socket
toothsome
tooth-stainer
toothstick
tooth-to-jowl
toothward
toothwash
toothwork
toothwort
toothy
unitooth
untooth
wangtooth
wisdom tooth
wit tooth
wolf tooth
Translations:
lang: Southern Altai
word: тиш
roman: tiš
lang: Bulgarian
word: зъб
roman: zǎb
lang: Catalan
word: dent
lang: Czech
word: zub
lang: Danish
word: tand
lang: Dongxiang
word: shidun
lang: Dutch
word: tand
lang: Dutch
word: zaagtand
lang: Finnish
word: hammas
lang: Finnish
word: sahanhammas
lang: French
word: dent
lang: Galician
word: dente
lang: Georgian
word: კბილი
roman: ḳbili
lang: German
word: Zahn
lang: German
word: Sägezahn
lang: Greek
word: δόντι
roman: dónti
lang: Ancient Greek
word: κῠνόδοντες
roman: kŭnódontes
lang: Hindi
word: दाँत
roman: dā̃t
lang: Hindi
word: दान्त
roman: dānt
lang: Hungarian
word: fog
lang: Icelandic
word: tönn
lang: Irish
word: fiacail
lang: Italian
word: dente
lang: Japanese
word: 鋸歯
roman: nokogiriba
lang: Korean
word: 톱니
roman: tomni
lang: Latvian
word: zobs
lang: Macedonian
word: забец
roman: zabec
lang: Malay
word: gerigi
lang: Khiamniungan Naga
word: hóu
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: tann
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: tann
lang: Pashto
word: غاښ
roman: ǧāx̌
lang: Iranian Persian
word: دَنْدانِه
roman: dandâne
lang: Polish
word: ząb
lang: Portuguese
word: dente
lang: Romanian
word: dinte
lang: Russian
word: зуб
roman: zub
lang: Russian
word: зу́бья
roman: zúbʹja
lang: Russian
word: зубе́ц
roman: zubéc
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: fiacaill
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: зу̑б
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zȗb
lang: Slovak
word: zub
lang: Spanish
word: diente
lang: Swedish
word: tand
lang: Swedish
word: sågtand
lang: Tatar
word: tiş
lang: Telugu
word: పన్ను
roman: pannu
lang: Thai
word: ฟัน
roman: fan
lang: Thai
word: เฟือง
roman: fʉʉang
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: دیش
roman: diş
lang: Ukrainian
word: зубе́ць
roman: zubécʹ
lang: Ukrainian
word: зуб
roman: zub
lang: Vietnamese
word: răng