Masculine
Zahn
Meaning
- (masculine, strong) tooth
- (masculine, strong) fang
- (masculine, strong) tusk
- (masculine, strong) cog, tine
Concepts
Synonyms
dent
diente
tand
dente
dente
δόντι
dent
dens
diş
diran
سن
dentFrequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/t͡saːn/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle High German zan, zant, from Old High German zan, zand, from Proto-West Germanic *tanþ, from Proto-Germanic *tanþs. The Old High German nominative zan alongside zand is not quite clear, but may go back to an inherited variation that was levelled in the other old languages. The stems zan- and zand- were then used indiscriminately in Middle High German. The success of the form without -d may have been reinforced by the widespread dialectal development: intervocalic -nd- → -nn-, which produced d-less inflected forms even in dialects that used zand-. Cognates include Dutch and Danish tand, Low German Tähn, English tooth. See the latter for more.
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