dét

See also: det, Det, DET, dêt, dệt, det., and Det.

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʲeːd/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *dantom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts.

Noun

dét n (genitive déit, nominative plural dét)

1. tooth
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 67^b10

     do déit glosses ad dentem

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 117^d5

     huan dét ascatu glosses emulo dente

2. set of teeth
3. (attributively) of ivory

   in colg déit ― ivory-hilted sword

4. morsel of food

Inflection

Neuter nt-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative
Vocative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• détbán, détgel (“white-toothed”)
• détidu (“toothache”)

Descendants

• Irish: déad

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

·dét

1. passive singular preterite conjunct of daimid

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
dét	dét pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndét
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 dét (‘tooth’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Vietnamese

Etymology

Borrowed from French zède.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zɛt̚˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [jɛt̚˦˧˥]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [jɛk̚˦˥]

Noun

dét

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z/z.