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Zen the  zëlter,  zëltâri,. ‘a horse that goes at a gentle pace’; allied to and  zëlt,, ‘amble, gentle pace,’  telganger, ‘ambler.’ To this  tealtrian, ‘to totter,’ is probably allied.   ' in ',, ‘criminal court or jurisdiction’; , , ‘judge of a criminal court,’ from zënte, , ‘district, consisting properly of 100 communities’;   cinta,  centa, ‘district.’   ,, ‘hundredweight,’ from the  zêntenœre,. Formed from centenarius (Da. centenaar); in, however, quintal,  quintale (and cantâro?).   , and, ‘sceptre,’ from  zëpter,  and , which is again derived from - sceptrum.   , prefix from zer- ( zur- and zu-),  zir-, zar-, zur-; a common West  verbal prefix, meaning ‘asunder’;   ti,  tô. In only twis- occurs as a verbal prefix in twisstandan, ‘to separate’; the nominal  prefix tuz- ( zûr-,  tor-) corresponds to  δυς-,  dus, ‘bad, difficult.’  ,, ‘to torment, tease, vex’; only. It may be identical with zęrn (and zęrgen),  zęrian (see ); yet  tergen,  tęrgan, ‘to tug, tease, worry’ ( to tarry), point to a  *targian, which with  dergati, ‘to tear, tug,’ indicate an Aryan root dṛgh. ,, ‘to tug, tease, worry,’ from and  zerren,  , ‘to tear, cleave’; from the same root as.  , see,.   ,, ‘to shatter, shiver,’ from zerschëllen,  , ‘to fly to pieces,’  ‘to burst with a loud noise.’ ,, ‘scattered, dispersed’; first formed in the last from  distrait.  ,, ‘to destroy, shatter, lay in ruins,’ formed from , ‘fragments, ruins’; in  zerdrumen, ‘to hew to pieces,’ from  drum, ‘piece, splinter.’  , ( in, ‘cry of murder, loud outcry,’ from  zêtergeschreie), from the   zêter (zëtter), ‘cry for help, of lamentation, or of astonishment’; not recorded elsewhere. <section begin="Zettel" /> ,, from the late  zettel, , ‘design or warp of a fabric’; allied to  and  zetten, ‘to scatter, spread out,’ whence  , ‘to disperse, spill.’ The early history of the root tad, seldom occurring in , is obscure. — ,, ‘note, ticket, playbill, placard,’ from zedele (zetele, zettele), ‘sheet of paper,’ is different from the preceding word. It is formed from cedola ( céndle), ‘ticket,’  scedula ( σχέδη), ‘scrap of paper.’ <section end="Zettel" /> <section begin="Zeug" /> ,, ‘stuff, substance, material, fabric, apparatus, utensils,’ from ziuc (g),  and , ‘tool, implements, equipment, weapons, baggage, stuff, testimony, proof, witness';  giziug,  and , ‘equipment, implements’ (hence  , ‘arsenal’). Allied to ,, ‘witness,’ from the  late  (rare) ziuge. Also ,, ‘to produce, beget, bear witness, testify,’ from ziugen, ‘to beget, prepare, procure, acquire, bear witness, prove,’  giziugôn, ‘to attest, show.’ All the cognates are derived from the  root tuh (see ), which in a few derivatives appears in the sense of ‘to produce, beget’;   teám, ‘descendants’ (to which  to teem is allied),  toom, ‘brood.’ From the same root the meaning ‘to attest, show,’ ( giziugôn),  ‘to be put on judicial record,’ must be derived. <section end="Zeug" /> <section begin="Zicke" /> ,, ‘kid,’ from zickelîn,  zicchî, zickîn (for the suffix -în, see ), ; corresponding to  tiččen. A diminutive of tigô-, ‘she-goat.’. <section end="Zicke" /> <section begin="Zickzack" /> , and, ‘zigzag,’  only; a recent form from. <section end="Zickzack" /> <section begin="Zieche" /> ,, ‘cover of a feather-bed, tick,’ from zieche,  ziahha, , ‘coverlet, pillow-case’; corresponding to  tijk,  tick. - thêca, whence also taie, ‘pillow-case,’ as well as  tíach, ‘tick,’ was adopted in  contemporaneously with  and, hence thêca was permutated to ziahha. <section end="Zieche" /> <section begin="Ziege" /> ,, ‘she-goat,’ from the  zige,  ziga, ; a  word, which in the  period passed also into. In, , with which is probably connected etymologically; for  gait-, ‘goat,’ may have had a graded variant *gitô-, by metathesis *tigô-. The latter form must also have been current<section end="Ziege" />