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Ultimately an active participle of the root *h₃ed-(“to bite”) + *-ónts(active participle suffix). This noun is usually reconstructed with the initial *h₁ and thus explained as active participle of the verb *h₁ed-(“to eat”). However, Aeolic ἔδοντες(édontes) appears to be a folk-etymological adaptation to ἔδω(édō), and the initial ἔ-(é-) is hence no evidence for *h₁-. Old Armenianատամն(atamn) also points to *h₃-, as well as a prefixed Greek derivative νωδός(nōdós), which requires *n̥-h₃d- (where */h₃/ was regularly vocalized to ό in interconsonantal position).
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “dēns”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 166-167