tooth – English noun declension

English noun forms of tooth

Noun: tooth
Singulartooth
Pluralteeth

Sample Sentences

  • tooth decay
  • Jute has more tooth than polypropylene.
  • Species XXXVI. Obliquaria bullata— (Unio bullata) […] Found at the falls of Ohio; rare; breadth almost two inches; cardinal and lamellar teeth like preceding species; apices rounded, decorticated, but not truncated [1832, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, A monograph of the fluviatile bivalve shells of the river Ohio, page 43:]
  • I have a sweet tooth: I love sugary treats.
  • These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth [1693, John Dryden, “The Third Satire of Aulus Persius Flaccus”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis:]

Nouns inflected like tooth

tooth,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-ónts
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts
5. Proto-Germanic *tanþs
6. Proto-West Germanic *tanþ
7. Old English tōþ
8. Middle English toth
9. English tooth
10. From Middle English toth, tothe, tooth, from Old English tōþ, from Proto-West Germanic *tanþ, from Proto-Germanic *tanþs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“tooth”). Doublet of dent, dens, tind, and tine. Related to tusk.
11. Cognates
12. Cognate with Scots tuith (“tooth”), North Frisian Ter, teän, tosch, toske, tuis, tus, tusch, täis (“tooth”), Saterland Frisian Tusk (“tooth”), West Frisian tosk (“tooth”), Bavarian Zåhn (“tooth”), Dutch tand (“tooth”), German Zahn (“tooth”), Limburgish tandj (“tooth”), Luxembourgish Zant (“tooth”), Vilamovian cōn (“tooth”), Yiddish צאָן (tson, “tooth”), Danish and Swedish tand (“tooth”), Faroese tonn (“tooth”), Icelandic tönn (“tooth”), Norn *tann, *tant (“tooth”), Norwegian Bokmål tann (“tooth”), Norwegian Nynorsk tann, tonn (“tooth”), Breton and Welsh dant (“tooth”), Cornish dans (“tooth”), Irish déad (“tooth”), Scottish Gaelic deud (“tooth”), Asturian, Leonese, Mirandese, and Spanish diente (“tooth”), Aragonese dien (“tooth”), Catalan and French dent (“tooth”), Galician, Italian, and Portuguese dente (“tooth”), Romanian dinte (“tooth”), Latin dēns (“tooth”), Ancient Greek ὀδούς (odoús), ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”), Lithuanian dantis (“tooth”), Belarusian дзясна́ (dzjasná, “gum”), Bulgarian and Russian десна (desna, “gum”), Czech dáseň (“gum”), Polish dziąsło (“gum”), Serbo-Croatian dȇsni (“gum”), Slovak ďasno (“gum”), Slovene dlesni (“gum”), Ukrainian я́сна (jásna, “gum”), Armenian ատամ (atam, “tooth”), Ossetian дӕндаг (dændag, “tooth”), Baluchi دنتان (dantán), دتھاں (datʰāⁿ, “tooth”), Central Kurdish ددان (ddan, “tooth”), Northern Kurdish didan, diran (“tooth”), Persian دندان (dandân, “tooth”), Sanskrit दत् (dat), दन्त (danta, “tooth”). See: Dutch Nouns 'tand', German Nouns 'Zahn', Faroese Nouns 'tonn', Icelandic Nouns 'tönn', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'tann', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'tann', Irish Nouns 'déad', Romanian Nouns 'dinte', Latin Nouns 'dēns', Ancient Greek Nouns 'ὀδούς', Czech Nouns 'dáseň', Polish Nouns 'dziąsło', Slovak Nouns 'ďasno'.

Verbs referencing "tooth"

German Nouns Zahn, Latin Nouns dens, Ancient Greek Nouns ὀδούς, Old Norse Nouns tǫnn.