Tooth

Werdhom word conservation score = ★★★★
English: a tooth, the tooth
Dutch: een tand, de tand
German: ein Zahn, der Zahn
Danish: en tand, tanden
Norwegian: en tann, tannen
Swedish: en tand, tanden
Icelandic: tönn, tönnin

English: tusk 
From Proto-Germanic: tanþs

English: dental (involving teeth)
French: une dent, la dent
Spanish: un diente, el diente
Portuguese: um dente, o dente
Italian: un dente, il dente
Romanian: un dinte, dintele
From Latin: dēns, dentis

English: orthodontics (teeth realignment)
Greek: δόντι (dónti)
From Ancient Greek: ὀδούς (odoús)

Irish: déad 
Welsh: dant
Cornish: dans
Breton:  dant
From Proto-Celtic: dantom
 
Polish: dziąsło (gum)
Russian десна́ (desná) (gum)
Bulgarian: дъвка (dŭvka) (gum)
From Proto-Slavic: dę̄snà  

Lithuanian: dantis

Farsi:‎ دندان (dandân)

Sanskrit: दत् (dát)

Armenian: ատամ (atam)

From Proto-Indo-European: h₃dónts (tooth)

English: comb
From Proto-Germanic: kambaz (comb)
Polish: ząb (tooth)
Russian: зуб (zub) (tooth)
Bulgarian: зъб (zŭb) (tooth)

Latvian: zobs (tooth)
From Proto-Balto-Slavic: źámbas (tooth)
From Proto-Indo-European: ǵómbʰos (tooth, row of teeth)

Note: The underlined languages have been reconstructed by comparative linguistic researchers. The word may be inaccurate, as there is no archaeological record of the language at that time.

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