[lit-ideas] Words and teeth
- From: Robert.Paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Paul)
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 29 Jun 2004 10:19:00 PDT
Blast it. I thought I made 'dentify' up. I hope JL will sent my post as a
citation to the folks in charge of the OED.
Robert Paul
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Aha. Notably, the OED does not yet seem to recognise the verb-form (which
pre-exists in French) -- just the nouning, 'dentification':
dentification.
f. L. dens, dent-em, tooth + -fication.
The cognate verb would be dentify. So in mod.F. (Littr$E9.)
Meaning:
Conversion into the substance of a tooth,
formation of dentine. (Cf. ossification.)
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