Where does “snaggletooth” come from?

snaggletooth (English) comes from English snaggle, from English Le, from French lé, from French moine, from Middle French moine, from Old French monie, from Latin monicus — sporadically attested in early Christian inscriptions from Gaul.

snaggletooth (English): A tooth inside the mouth that is unaligned or...

Definitions

  1. A tooth inside the mouth that is unaligned or...

Ancestry of “snaggletooth”, step by step

snaggletooth traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English snaggle

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsnaggleA tangled, knotted, or intertwined mass; To...
2EnglishLethe
3Frenchlébreadth, width; strip, length
4Frenchmoinemonk
5Middle Frenchmoinemonk
6Old Frenchmoniemonk
7Latinmonicussporadically attested in early Christian inscriptions from Gaul

via English tooth

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishtoothA hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth...
2Middle EnglishtothAlternative form of tothe
3Old Englishtōþtooth
4Proto-Germanictanþstooth
5Proto-Indo-Europeanh₃dóntstooth
6Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁ed-to eat
Every word from Latin monicus →Every word from Old French monie →Every word from Middle French moine →