dét

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

Old Irish

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

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. 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. 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
Vocative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

See etymology on the main entry.

·dét

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.

“1 dét (‘tooth’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Borrowed from French zède.

dét

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