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dantā

danta

masc nom pl of danta (noun); masc instr sg of danta (noun); masc abl sg of danta (noun); masc voc sg of danta (noun); …

1. tooth
2. tusk
3. tamed; trained; mastered; (comm) meek
4. with teeth; having (a certain kind of) teeth; -toothed

Built from

• dant — root · tooth, bite
  From IE *h₁edont- (tooth), related to eating. Cognates: Latin dēns, English tooth, German Zahn, Greek odóus. The semantic shift from 'biting/eating' to 'tooth' (the instrument of biting) is transparent across languages.

Etymology. From √dant- (bite, chew), cognate with Sanskrit dant-, Latin dēns, English tooth, German Zahn, Greek odóus (ὀδούς). The root belongs to the Indo-European family *h₁ed- (eat); the sense

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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