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Old English · noun

toþ

Normalised tōþ

Part of speech
noun, masculine
Declension
strong consonant stem
IPA
/toːθ/
Syllables
toːθ (1 syllable)
Modern English
toothwalrustusk

Meaning

  1. tooth

    Þā wīf syndon ðrēotȳne fōta lange ⁊ heora līċ bið on marmorstānes hwītnysse. ⁊ hī habbað olfenda fēt ⁊ eoferes tēð. For heora unclēnnesse hīe ġefelde wurdon fram ðām mycclan macedoniscȧn Alexandre. Þā hē hī lifiende ġefōn ne mihte þā ācwealde hē hī for ðam hī syndon ǣwisċe on līchoman ⁊ unweorðe.

    Those women are thirteen feet tall and their bodies are the whiteness of marble. And they have the feet of camels and teeth of a boar. For their uncleanliness, they were killed by Alexander the Great of Macedon. He killed them because he could not capture them alive, because they are worthless and foul of body.

    Wonders of the East
  2. tusk (of a walrus)

    Hē fōr ðyder, tōēacan þæs landes sċēawunge, forðǣm horshwælum, forðǣm hī habbað swȳðe æþele bān on hyra tōþum: þā tēð hȳ brōhton sume þǣm cyninge; and hyra hȳd bið swīðe gōd tō sċiprāpum. Sē hwæl bið miċle lǣssa þonne ōðre hwalas: ne bið ne lengra ðonne syfan elna lang; ac, on his āgnum lande, is sē betsta hwælhuntað: þā bēoð eahta and fēowertiġes elna lange, and þā

    He went thither, in addition to the surveying of that land, because of the walruses, because they have very excellent bones on their tusks: they brought some of the teeth to the king; and their hides are very good for use as cables. This whale is much smaller than other whales; it is no longer than seven ells; but the best whaling is found in its own land: the whales are forty-eight ells long, and

    Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan

Declension

Declension of toþ
SingularPlural
Nominative tōþtēþtœ̄þ
Accusative tōþtēþtœ̄þ
Genitive tōþestōþa
Dative tēþtœ̄þtōþum

All forms (6)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *tanþ (by loss of the n and the resulting compensatory lengthening of the vowel). Cognates with Old Frisian tōth, Old Saxon tand, Dutch tand, Old High German zan, zand (German Zahn), Old Norse tǫnn (Swedish tand), Gothic (tunþus); and with Sanskrit दन्त (danta) (Hindi दांत (dānt)), Ancient Greek ὀδών (odṓn), Latin dēns (French dent), Old Irish dét, and Lithuanian danti̇̀s.

Descendants

tooth

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