Other forms: teeth
A tooth is one of the small hard white things in your mouth for biting. A loose tooth, brush your teeth, tooth decay.
Enamel is the hardest substance the body makes and it does not grow back, which is the whole reason for brushing. The plural teeth is one of a small group of English plurals made by changing the vowel, alongside foot and goose. Note that a tooth on a saw or a gear is the same word.
1nountoothOne of the hard white things in the mouth for biting.
“I broke a tooth on a hard sweet and had to see the dentist.”
tooth is a body part.
Also accepted in games: teeth
Old English toth comes from a Proto-Indo-European word for a tooth. Dentist, dental and indent come from the same root through Latin.
Middle English
toth
English, today
tooth
From Middle English toth. From Middle English toth,tothe,tooth, from Old English tōþ, from Proto-West Germanic tanþ, from Proto-Germanic tanþs, from Proto-Indo-European h₃dónts (“tooth”). a doublet of dent and dens and tind and tine. Related to tusk. 2
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA