dét

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʲeːd/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *dant, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts.

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. 67^b10

     do déit glosses ad dentem

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, 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. 117^d5

     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

This declension was soon replaced by a regular o-stem declension in later varieties of Irish.

Derived terms

• détbán, détgel (“white-toothed”)
• détidu (“toothache”)

Descendants

• Irish: déad
• Scottish Gaelic: deud

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

·dét

1. passive singular preterite conjunct of daimid

Mutation

References

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 dét (‘tooth’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Vietnamese

Etymology

Borrowed from French zède.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key):
• (Huế) IPA^(key):
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key):

Noun

dét

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