单词 | tooth-fee |
释义 | tooth-feen. A gift to an infant on cutting its first tooth, a custom mentioned in Old Norse, and still observed in Iceland (Vigfusson). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > gift or present > [noun] > gift on cutting first tooth tooth-fee1866 1866–7 G. Stephens Old-Northern Runic Monuments I. ii. 538 This fine Gold-bracteate..was probably a Tooth-fee or Birthday gift. 1884 York Powell in Academy 23 Feb. 128/2 What Sigmund gave his son was a sword, imon-lauk, a very fitting tooth-fee, or name-gift, to one who was to live and die in arms. Derivatives ˈtooth-gift n. ΚΠ 1875 R. B. Anderson Norse Mythol. 445 Alfheim was given him as a tooth-gift. tooth-money n. ΚΠ 1851 B. Thorpe Northern Mythol. I. 25 Alfheim was given to him [Frey] by the gods as tooth-money. tooth-piece n. ΚΠ 1866–7 G. Stephens Old-Northern Runic Monuments I. ii. 529 It would seem to have been struck as a Birth-day- or Tooth-piece for some highborn child. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1851 |
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