The story
- Old English · inherited fromforetōþ“front tooth”
- Middle English · inherited from*fortoth
- English todayforetooth
From Middle English *fortoth (attested in plural fortethe, foreteþ), from Old English foretōþ (“front tooth”), equivalent to fore- + tooth. Compare Dutch voorste tand (“front tooth”), German Vorderzahn (“front tooth”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.