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单词 tooth-fee
释义

tooth-feen.

Etymology: Literal rendering of Old Norse tann-fé, < tǫnn, tann- tooth + money.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtooth-fee.
A gift to an infant on cutting its first tooth, a custom mentioned in Old Norse, and still observed in Iceland (Vigfusson).
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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.
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1875 R. B. Anderson Norse Mythol. 445 Alfheim was given him as a tooth-gift.
tooth-money n.
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1851 B. Thorpe Northern Mythol. I. 25 Alfheim was given to him [Frey] by the gods as tooth-money.
tooth-piece n.
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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).
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