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tusk

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?t?sk/
  • Rhymes: -?sk

Etymology 1

From Middle English tusk (also tux, tusch), from Old English t?sc (canine tooth, tusk), from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz (tooth), extended form of *tanþs (tooth), from Proto-Indo-European *h?dónts (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 ???????????????????????? (tunþus, tooth) and *???????????????????? (*tundi, thorn, tooth). Doublet of tush. More at tooth.

Noun

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.
    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.
  5. A sharp point.
  6. The share of a plough.
Translations

Verb

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

  • tusked
  • tusker
  • tusklike
  • tusky
  • tusk tenon

References

  • Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “tusk”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tusk (plural tusks)

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

Ludian

Etymology

Related to Finnish tuska. Ultimately from Russian ?????? (toská, melancholy).

Noun

tusk

  1. pain

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • tux, tuxe, tosk, tuske, twuxe

Etymology

From Old English t?x, from earlier t?sc, from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz. Compare tusshe.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tusk/, /tuks/

Noun

tusk (plural tuskes)

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

Derived terms

  • tusky
  • tuskyd

Descendants

  • English: tusk
  • Scots: tusk

References

  • “tusk, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-22.

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

  • tosk

Etymology

Cognate with Old English t?sc.

Noun

tusk m

  1. tooth

Inflection

Descendants

  • West Frisian: tosk

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish tuska. Ultimately from Russian ?????? (toská, melancholy).

Noun

tusk

  1. boredom

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haaf

English

Alternative forms

  • haave

Etymology

From Old Norse haf (the sea). Cognate with Danish hav, Old English hæf (Etymology 2).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /h?f/

Noun

haaf

  1. (fishing, Shetland, Scotland) the open sea, especially as a place to fish
  2. (fishing, Shetland) the practice of sea fishing for such as cod, ling and tusk
    • 2005, James Coull, 7: The development of fishing communities with special reference to Scotland, Jonathan Potts, Hance D. Smith (editors), Managing Britain's Marine and Coastal Environment: Towards a Sustainable Future, page 145,
      Although men concentrated at the main haaf stations during the summer fishing season, they reverted to their homes in crofting townships for the remainder of the year.

Derived terms


Scots

Alternative forms

  • haaff, haf, haff

Etymology

From Old Norse haf (the sea). Cognate with Danish hav, Old English hæf (Etymology 2).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /h?(?)f/

Noun

haaf (uncountable)

  1. (archaic, Orkney, Shetland) the deep sea beyond coastal waters
  2. (fishing, Shetland) the deep-sea fishing carried out 30-40 miles offshore in open boats
  3. (fishing, Orkney, Shetland) deep-sea fishing, especially for cod, ling, tusk, etc.

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “haaf” in Eagle, Andy, editor, The Online Scots Dictionary[1], 2016.
  • “haaf” in John J Graham, The Shetland Dictionary, Lerwick: Shetland Times Ltd, 1979, ?ISBN.
  • Flaws, Margaret; Lamb, Gregor (1996) The Orkney Dictionary, Kirkwall, Orkney: Orkney Language and Culture Group, published 2001, ?ISBN

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