Talk:Fang

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I removed the line about mythology. Listing multiple "were creatures" was not only redundant but horridly obvious (I mean come on, they're based on ANIMALS, I don't see the article on fur mentioning the fact that werewolves and were-bears and were-unicorns have fur) while vampires, demons, sea serpents and bunyips do not universally have fangs. Maybe that line could be replaced with a better version, although I don't really see it as necessary. But it was just plain unsightly the way it was. 68.205.68.57 (talk) 21:13, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Etymology: fang could be derived from german "Fangzahn", literally "catching tooth"

Both English and German "fang" are from the Germanic *fangaz, verbal noun from *faŋhanan "to sieze". --89.138.235.244 (talk) 06:45, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

merge

Spiders and snakes have fangs, not canine teeth. So the proposed merge doesn't work. —Pengo 10:28, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm. Seems to me that the article should mention something about that. In fact, since the term is mostly used to describe spiders and snake teeth, modified to inject venom, it should probably be the main focus of it. In Old English, the term originally meant "to seize, to take hold of", and was synonymous with the modern word "loot" or "booty", as in, "After pillaging the town, the Vikings loaded all their fang onto the longboat and sailed away." It's use to describe canine teeth didn't occur until the Renaissance, but in modern tongue it more often refers to vampires, spiders, and snakes, at least in scientific and technical contexts. Zaereth (talk) 00:25, 20 September 2023 (UTC)