tusk

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English[edit]

Walruses with tusks.
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Men with elephant tusks.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈtʌsk/
  • (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)

  1. 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.
  2. A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
  3. A tusk shell.
  4. (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]
  5. A sharp point.
  6. The share of a plough.
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Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

tusk (third-person singular simple present tusks, present participle tusking, simple past and past participle tusked)

  1. To dig up using a tusk, as boars do.
  2. To gore with the tusks.
  3. (obsolete) To bare or gnash the teeth.

Related terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • 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)

  1. A fish, the torsk (Brosme brosme).

Kashubian[edit]

Noun[edit]

tusk m animal

  1. dog

Descendants[edit]

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

  1. pain

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)

  1. A tusk (protruding long tooth)
  2. Any long and sharp tooth.
  3. (rare) The end of a spear.

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • English: tusk
  • Scots: tusk

References[edit]

Old Frisian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Cognate with Old English tūsc.

Noun[edit]

tusk m

  1. tooth

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

  1. depression, melancholy, grief, suffering

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