From en.wiktionary.org:
[din't]
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en], [enm], [enm], from [en],[1] from [en], from [en]. Cognate with
[sv] dialectal [sv], [is]. [en].
**** Alternative forms
- [en]
**** Noun
[~]
1. [en] A blow , stroke , especially dealt in a fight .
2. * [book=I]
3. * 1600 , [Edward Fairfax] , The _[Jerusalem Delivered]_ of [Torquato Tasso] , XI, xxxi:
4. *: Between them cross-bows stood, and engines wrought / To cast a stone, a quarry, or a dart, // From whence, like thunder's DINT , or lightnings new, / Against the bulwarks stones and lances flew.
5. Force , power; especially in [en] .
6. * {{ RQ:Shakespeare Julius Caesar | III | ii
|passage=O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel / The DINT of pity}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1805 | author=Sir [Walter Scott] | title=w:The Lay of the Last Minstrel | section=XVIII
|passage=It was by DINT of passing strength / That he moved the massy stone at
length.}}
1. The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent .
2. * [en]
3. * [10]
***** Derived terms
- [en]
- [en]
***** Translations
[a dent]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Irish: [ga]
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
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*** Etymology 2
From [en], from the noun.[2][3] Compare [non].<ref name="MED v."/>
**** Alternative forms
- [en]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To dent .
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1854 | author=W. Harrison Ainsworth | title=The Star-Chamber, Volume 2 | chapter= | edition= | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12397
|passage=Your helmet was DINTED in as if by a great shot.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1915 | author=Jeffery Farnol | title=Beltane The Smith | chapter= | edition= | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10064
|passage=And, in that moment came one, fierce and wild of aspect, in DINTED
casque and rusty mail who stood and watched--ah God!}}
***** Derived terms
[en]
*** Etymology 3
**** Contraction
[en]
1. [en] .
*** References
References:
[1]. [en ]
[2]. [entry=dinten]
[3]. [pos=v]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
** Friulian
*** Etymology
From [fur]. Compare [it], [rm], [vec], [ro], [fr], [es].
*** Noun
[m]
1. tooth
**** Derived terms
- [fur]
** Middle English
[enm]
*** Alternative forms
- [enm]
*** Etymology
From [enm], from [enm], from [enm].
*** Pronunciation
- [enm]
*** Noun
[dintes]
1. The landing of a weapon; a blow or stroke .
2. * [enm]
3. [enm] Warfare, battle; the use of weaponry .
4. The strike, landing or force of a tool or other item hitting something.
5. The striking or noise of thunder ; a thunderclap .
6. [enm] A strike with one's limbs or body .
7. [enm] An injury resulting from a weapon's impact.
**** Derived terms
- [enm]
**** Descendants
- [en]
- [sco]
*** Further reading
- [entry= dint ]
[enm]
** Old Irish
*** Etymology
[sga]
*** Pronunciation
- [c]
*** Article
[sga]
1. of/from the [s]
2. * [Ml]
3. *: {{ quote | sga | Is samlid léicfimmi-ni doïbsom aisndís DINT ṡéns ⁊ din mórálus, manip écóir frisin stoir ad·fíadam-ni.
|It is thus we shall leave to them the exposition of the sense and the
morality, if it is not at variance with the history that we relate.}}
**** Usage notes
Used before lenited [sga].
** Romagnol
*** Pronunciation
[se=1]
*** Noun
[rgn] [rgn]
1. [rgn]
** Walloon
*** Etymology
From [wa], from [wa].
*** Pronunciation
- [wa]
*** Noun
[wa]
1. [wa] tooth