Etymology

teeth

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Today it means: Unpleasant oral sex Full definition →

Middle English teth ← Old English tēþ ← Proto-Germanic *tanþiz
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · inherited from*h₃dóntes
  2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*tanþiz
  3. Old English · inherited fromtēþ
  4. Middle English · inherited fromteth
  5. English todayteeth

From Middle English teth, plural of tothe, from Old English tēþ, nominative plural of tōþ, from earlier *tœ̄þ, from Proto-Germanic *tanþiz, nominative plural of *tanþs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dóntes, nominative plural of *h₃dónts.

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