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発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈtʌsk/
• (Northern England) IPA: /ˈtʊsk/
• 韻: -ʌsk

語源 1

From 中期英語 tusk (also tux, tusch), from 古期英語 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.

名詞

tusk (plural tusks)

1. One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth (either cuspids or incisors) 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.

   Coordinate term: fang (has different functions)

   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.

派生語

動詞

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.

関連する語

• tusked
• tusker
• tusklike
• tusky
• tusk tenon

参照

• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “tusk”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• “tusk” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.

語源 2

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

名詞

tusk (plural tusks)

1. An edible fish, Brosme brosme.

   Synonyms: torsk, cusk; more at cusk

語源

From 古期英語 tūx, from earlier tūsc, from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz. Compare tusshe.

発音

• IPA: /tusk/, /tuks/

名詞

tusk (plural tuskes)

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

派生語

• tusky
• tuskyd

派生した語

• English: tusk
• Scots: tusk

参照

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