Bluetooth

From blue +‎ tooth, calque of Old Norse Blátǫnn (modern Danish Blåtand).

• (networking): The networking standard is named after the king because the technology unites computers and mobile devices similarly to the way he united the Danish tribes.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbluːtuːθ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈblutuθ/

Bluetooth

1. The nickname of Harald Gormsson, a king of Denmark and Norway.
2. (networking, trademark) An industrial specification for wireless personal area networks.

Bluetooth (third-person singular simple present Bluetooths, present participle Bluetoothing, simple past and past participle Bluetoothed)

1. (transitive, intransitive, networking) To transmit or communicate by Bluetooth.
   • 2009, Seema Gupta, Branding and Advertising, page 303:

     The widespread use of mobile phones which support free Bluetoothing has enabled promotional videos to be distributed virally between handsets.

   • 2010, Katie Taylor, Confessions of a Teenager: The Diaries of Three Troubled Teens, page 92:

     Everyone's bluetoothing each other the latest ring tones and pictures. Telling the most crazy stories ever.

Unadapted borrowing from English Bluetooth, a calque from Old Norse Blátǫnn.

• IPA^(key): /blu.tus/

• Audio:

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Bluetooth m

1. (networking) Bluetooth

Unadapted borrowing from English Bluetooth, a calque from Old Norse Blátǫnn.

• IPA^(key): /ˈblu.tuf/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -utuf
• Syllabification: Blue‧tooth

Bluetooth n (indeclinable)

1. (networking) Bluetooth (personal area wireless network)

• Bluetooth in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English Bluetooth, calqued from Old Norse Blátǫnn.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌbluˈtuf/, /bluˈtu/
• Rhymes: -u

o Bluetooth m

1. (networking) Bluetooth (personal area wireless network)