tusk的词源

英文词源

tusk (n.)

Old English tusc, also transposed as tux, "long, pointed tooth protruding from the mouth of an animal," cognate with Old Frisian tusk, probably from Proto-Germanic *tunthsk- (cognates: Gothic tunþus "tooth"), from an extended form of PIE *dent-, the root of tooth. But "there are no certain cognates outside of the Anglo-Frisian area" [OED].

中文词源

tusk：长牙

来自古英语 tusc,犬牙，磨牙，来自 Proto-Germanic*tunthskaz,牙齿，来自 PIE*dent,牙齿，词 源同 tooth,dentist.拼写去鼻音化。

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