tusk
See also: Tusk
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈtʌsk/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌsk
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English tusk (also tux, tusch), from Old English tūx, tūsc (“canine tooth, tusk, molar”), from Proto-West Germanic *tų̄sk, *tunsk, from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz (“canine tooth”), extended form of *tanþs (“tooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“tooth”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tusk (“tooth”), West Frisian tosk (“tooth”), Icelandic toskur (“a tusk, tooth”) (whence the Old Norse and Icelandic Ratatoskr and Ratatoskur respectively), Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌽𐌸𐌿𐍃 (tunþus, “tooth”) and *𐍄𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌹 (*tundi, “thorn, tooth”). Doublet of tush. More at tooth.
Noun
[edit]tusk (plural tusks)
- One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar, and which continue to grow throughout the animal's life.
- Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade.
- A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
- A tusk shell.
- (carpentry) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth.[1]
- A sharp point.
- The share of a plough.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]pointed tooth
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sharp point
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Verb
[edit]tusk (third-person singular simple present tusks, present participle tusking, simple past and past participle tusked)
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “tusk”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “tusk”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
Etymology 2
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
[edit]tusk (plural tusks)
- A fish, the torsk (Brosme brosme).
Kashubian
[edit]Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tusk m animal
Further reading
[edit]- Witold Taszycki (2000-2001) Onomastica[1], volume 45, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich
- Zdzisława Stiebera, editor (1964), Atlas językowy kaszubszczyzny i dialektów sąsiednich[2], Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich
Ludian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Related to Finnish tuska. Ultimately from Russian тоска́ (toská, “melancholy”).
Noun
[edit]tusk
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English tūx, from earlier tūsc, from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz. Compare tusshe.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tusk (plural tuskes)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “tusk, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-22.
Old Frisian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate with Old English tūsc.
Noun
[edit]tusk m
Inflection
[edit]| Declension of tusk (masculine a-stem) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | tusk | tuskar, tuska |
| genitive | tuskes | tuska |
| dative | tuske | tuskum, tuskem |
| accusative | tusk | tuskar, tuska |
Descendants
[edit]Veps
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old East Slavic тъска (tŭska) (compare Russian тоска́ (toská, “melancholy”)).
Noun
[edit]tusk
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of tusk (inflection type 6/kuva) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative sing. | tusk | ||
| genitive sing. | tuskan | ||
| partitive sing. | tuskad | ||
| partitive plur. | — | ||
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | tusk | — | |
| accusative | tuskan | — | |
| genitive | tuskan | — | |
| partitive | tuskad | — | |
| essive-instructive | tuskan | — | |
| translative | tuskaks | — | |
| inessive | tuskas | — | |
| elative | tuskaspäi | — | |
| illative | tuskaha | — | |
| adessive | tuskal | — | |
| ablative | tuskalpäi | — | |
| allative | tuskale | — | |
| abessive | tuskata | — | |
| comitative | tuskanke | — | |
| prolative | tuskadme | — | |
| approximative I | tuskanno | — | |
| approximative II | tuskannoks | — | |
| egressive | tuskannopäi | — | |
| terminative I | tuskahasai | — | |
| terminative II | tuskalesai | — | |
| terminative III | tuskassai | — | |
| additive I | tuskahapäi | — | |
| additive II | tuskalepäi | — | |
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