tusk

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.5 Related terms 1.6 References 2 Old Frisian 2.1 Noun

[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

From Old English tux, tusc, cognate with Old Frisian tusk, probably from the Proto-Germanic root tunthskaz, an extended form of the linguistic root of tooth.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtʌsk/, SAMPA: /"tVsk/

[edit] Noun

tusk (plural tusks)

1. One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar.

   Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade.

2. A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.

[edit] Translations

[edit] Verb

to tusk (third-person singular simple present tusks, present participle tusking, simple past and past participle tusked)

1. To dig up using a tusk, as boars do.

[edit] Related terms

• tusked
• tusker
• tusklike
• tusk tenon

[edit] References

• "tusk" in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001
• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

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[edit] Old Frisian

[edit] Noun

tusk

1. tooth