Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female therian mammals, milk is secreted. · Something resembling a teat, such as a small protuberance or nozzle. · An artificial nipple used for bottle-feeding infants.
From Middle English tete, from Old French tete (“teat”) (compare French tette), from Frankish *tittā, *tittō, from Proto-Germanic *tittaz (“teat; nipple; breast”), ultimately of expressive origin. Compare Old High German zizza ("teat"; modern German Zitze), whence also Italian zizza (“teat”). It heavily displaced Old English titt, a cognate of the same origin, which survives as tit, but in more vulgar use. Compare Dutch tiet and German Zitze (“teat”).
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