dét

See also: Appendix:Variations of "det"

Old Irish

dét n (genitive déit, nominative plural dét)

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
set of teeth
(attributively) of ivory
in colg déit ― ivory-hilted sword
morsel of food

Neuter nt-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	dét^N	dét^L	dét^L
Vocative	dét^N	dét^L	dét^L
Accusative	dét^N	dét^L	dét^L
Genitive	dét	dét	dét^N
Dative	déit^L	détaib	détaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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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.

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 dét (‘tooth’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Borrowed from French zède.

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