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Etymology gleanings March 2018

One of the questions I received was about dent , indent , and indenture . What do they have in common with dent – “tooth,” as in dental and dentures ? Dent , which surfaced in texts in the 13th century, meant “stroke, blow” and has plausibly been explained as a variant of its full synonym or doublet dint .

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