tusk
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English tusk (also tux, tusch), from Old English tūx, tūsc (“grinder, canine tooth, tusk”), from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz (“tooth”), extended form of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *tanþs (“tooth”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“tooth”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tusk (“tooth”), West Frisian tosk (“tooth”), Icelandic toskur (“a tusk, tooth”) (whence the Old Norse and Icelandic Ratatoskr and Ratatoskur respectively), Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌽𐌸𐌿𐍃 (tunþus, “tooth”) and *𐍄𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌹 (*tundi, “thorn, tooth”). More at tooth.
Noun
tusk (plural tusks)
- 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.
- A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
- A tusk shell.
- (carpentry) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth.
- A sharp point.
- The share of a plough.
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Verb
tusk (third-person singular simple present tusks, present participle tusking, simple past and past participle tusked)
Related terms
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “tusk”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
Etymology 2
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Noun
tusk (plural tusks)
- A fish, the torsk (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.).
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tusk”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Ludian
Etymology
Related to Finnish tuska. Ultimately from Russian тоска́ (toská, “melancholy”).
Noun
tusk
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English tūx, from earlier tūsc, from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz. Compare tusshe.
Pronunciation
Noun
tusk (plural tuskes)
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “tusk (n.(1))”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-22.
Old Frisian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Cognate with Old English tūsc.
Noun
tusk m
Inflection
Declension of tusk (masculine a-stem) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | tusk | tuskar, tuska |
genitive | tuskes | tuska |
dative | tuske | tuskum, tuskem |
accusative | tusk | tuskar, tuska |
Descendants
- West Frisian: tosk
Veps
Etymology
Related to Finnish tuska. Ultimately from Russian тоска́ (toská, “melancholy”).
Noun
tusk
- English 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/ʌsk
- English terms inherited from Middle English
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- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
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- en:Carpentry
- English verbs
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- en:Anatomy
- en:Elephants
- en:Gadiforms
- en:Mollusks
- en:Teeth
- Ludian terms borrowed from Russian
- Ludian terms derived from Russian
- Ludian lemmas
- Ludian nouns
- Middle English terms inherited from Old English
- Middle English terms derived from Old English
- Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
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- Middle English terms with rare senses
- enm:Anatomy
- enm:Animal body parts
- enm:Teeth
- Old Frisian lemmas
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- Old Frisian masculine nouns
- Old Frisian a-stem nouns
- Veps terms borrowed from Russian
- Veps terms derived from Russian
- Veps lemmas
- Veps nouns