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in estonian the litteral translation is milk teeth and for the teeth in adulthood it's ice teeth
Not ice teeth, 'jäävhambad' means permanent teeth. The root word 'jääma', meaning to stay
i guess as a child i always heard it as jäähambad
In Finnish adult teeth are called literally iron teeth.