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Dutch: verstandskies, translated to wisdom tooth as verstand means wisdom, but if you change the intonation, you get the real original word: ver-stands-kies, meaning far standing tooth. The English word wisdom tooth is a wrong translation of the Dutch.
in German it’s also wisdom teeth. I’m wondering why that is now…
Adjacent comment has the sauce. They are referred to by roughly the same colloquialism in many languages that borrowed from Latin dentes sapientiae. I was curious but never knew why before today.
