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dét

dét

See also: det, Det, DET, dêt, dệt, det., and Det.

Old Irish

Noun

dét n (genitive déit, nominative plural dét)

  1. tooth
    • c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 67b10
      do déit glosses ad dentem
    • c. 875, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 117d5
      huan dét ascatu glosses emulo dente
  2. set of teeth
  3. (attributively) of ivory
    in colg déit ― ivory-hilted sword
  4. morsel of food
Inflection
Neuter nt-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative
Vocative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization
Derived terms
  • détbán, détgel (white-toothed)
  • détidu (toothache)

Descendants

Etymology 2

Non-lemma forms.

Verb

·dét

  1. passive singular preterite conjunct of daimid

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
dét dét
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/
ndét
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References


Vietnamese

Etymology

Borrowing from French zède

Pronunciation

Noun

dét

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z/z.