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ˈtooth-fee
[Literal rendering of ON. tann-fé, f. tǫnn, tann- tooth + fé money.]
A gift to an infant on cutting its first tooth, a custom mentioned in Old Norse, and still observed in Iceland (Vigfusson). Also ˈtooth-gift, -money, -piece.
1851Thorpe North. Mythol. I. 25 Alfheim was given to him [Frey] by the gods as tooth-money. 1868G. Stephens Runic Mon. II. 538 This fine Gold-bracteate..was probably a Tooth-fee or Birthday gift. Ibid. 529 It would seem to have been struck as a Birth-day- or Tooth-piece for some highborn child. 1875R. B. Anderson Norse Mythol. 445 Alfheim was given him as a tooth-gift. 1884York 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. |