toþ

See also: toth, Tóth, toy, Toy, tøy, -tøy, тоу, and тө.ү

Middle English

Noun

toþ

1. alternative form of toth

Old English

Alternative forms

• tōð

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 𐍄𐌿𐌽𐌸𐌿𐍃 (tunþus); and with Sanskrit दन्त (danta) (Hindi दांत (dānt)), Ancient Greek ὀδών (odṓn), Latin dēns (French dent), Old Irish dét, and Lithuanian danti̇̀s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toːθ/
• Rhymes: -oːθ

Noun

tōþ m

1. tooth
   • Wonders of the East

     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.

2. tusk (of a walrus)
   • Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan

     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 mǣstan, fīftiġes elna lange; þāra, hē sǣde, þæt hē syxa sum ofslōge syxtiġ on twām dagum.

     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 the largest are fifty ells; of those, he said that he as one of six killed sixty in two days.

Declension

(West Saxon, late Kentish) Strong consonant stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	tōþ	tēþ
accusative	tōþ	tēþ
genitive	tōþes	tōþa
dative	tēþ	tōþum

(Anglian, early Kentish) Strong consonant stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	tōþ	tœ̄þ
accusative	tōþ	tœ̄þ
genitive	tōþes	tōþa
dative	tœ̄þ	tōþum

Derived terms

• fengtōþ
• ġetēþed
• tōþlēas
• wangtōþ

Descendants

• Middle English: toth, toeth, tooth, tooþ, tothe, toþ, toþe, tuth, tuthe, toð (Early Middle English), tuthe (Northern)
  • English: tooth

    Ottawa Valley: tuth, tut

    West Riding: tooith, toith

  • Scots: tuth, tuith