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Zie in pre-historic times, as is proved by the  tiččen,  to  zicchî (see ), and the form kittîn, obtained by metathesis,  to  chizzî. In East  and  are used for ; in  and  and in   is the current term.   ,, ‘brick, tile,’ from the  ziegel,  ziagal,. The word was borrowed in the pre- period, perhaps contemporaneously with, , , and , from têgula, whence also the Romance cognates,  tegghia, tegola,  tuile; from the same source are derived  tegehel, tegel,  tigel,  tile. is not a cognate, but a genuine word, although  tegula and its Romance forms may be used in the sense of.  ,, ‘to draw, pull, march,’ from the  ziehen,  ziohan; a common   ;   tiuhan,  tiohan,  teon. The verbal root tuh (tug) corresponds to an Aryan root duk, which has been preserved in  dûco, ‘to lead.’ From the same root the cognates of, ,  , and the (properly)  Tau, , are derived.  ,, ‘limit, aim, goal,’ from the  and  zil,. Allied to tils, gatils, ‘suitable, fit,’ and gatilôn, ‘to aim at, attain,’  zilôn, ‘to make haste,’  tilian, ‘to be zealous, till' ( to till),  telen, ‘to produce, create,’  tilian, ‘to attain.’ To the   tila-, ‘suitable,’ the   til (whence  till) belongs. Hence the primary meaning of the cognates is ‘that which is fixed, definite,’ so that it is possible to connect them with the root tī̆ in  and.  ,, ‘to beseem, become, suit,’ from zëmen,  zëman, ‘to beseem, suit, be adapted, gratify'; corresponding to  gatiman,  tëman,  betamen,  , ‘to be proper, suit.’ It has been suggested under  that  zeman, ‘to suit,’ is a deduction from the causative  (see  and ). Allied to ,, ‘suitable, moderate, tolerable,’ from zimelich, ‘proper, adapted.’  ,, ‘buttock, hind-quarter' (of animals), ‘haunch (of venison),’ from the  zimere,   dialectic forms such as   and  indi - cate the  origin of the word;  base têmoz-, timiz-.   ,, ‘ornament, decoration,’ from ziere,  ziarî, , ‘beauty, magnificence, ornament’; an abstract of the   ziere,  ziari, zêri, ‘precious, splendid, beautiful.’ Corresponding to  tírr,  and  tîr, , ‘fame, honour' ( tire). The relation of the words is difficult to explain, because the stem vowels ( ia not to  î) do not correspond. No connection with decus, ‘honour’ (decôrus, ‘becoming’), is possible. —    ( is a corruption),, ‘adornment, decoration,’ from zierôt, an abstract of  ziere (  and ). —   ,, ‘ornament, decoration,’ from zierde,  ziarida, , with the meanings of  ziarî,  (see ).   ,, ‘shrew-mouse,’ from the  zisel (and zisemûs), ; a corruption of the   cisimus. <section end="Ziesel" /> <section begin="Ziestag" /> , see. <section end="Ziestag" /> <section begin="Ziffer" /> ,, ‘figure, numeral, cipher,’ from late (rare), zifer, ziffer, ; corresponding to  cijfer,  cipher,  chiffre, ‘cipher, secret characters,’  cifra, ‘secret characters.’ Originally ‘cipher, nought’; adopted in the European languages from  çafar, ‘nought,’ along with the Arabic notation. <section end="Ziffer" /> <section begin="-zig" /> , suffix for forming the tens, from -zic (g),  -zug;. In, from drî-ȥec,  drî-ȥug, there appears a different permutation of the t of  tigus, ‘ten’;   -tig,  -ty. tigu- (from pre- dekú-) is a variant of taíhan, ‘ten.’ See. <section end="-zig" /> <section begin="Zimmer" /> ,, ‘room, chamber,’ from zimber,  zimbar, , ‘timber, wooden building, dwelling, room'; corresponding to  timbar,  timmer, ‘room,’  timber,  timber,  timbr. To these are allied timrjan, ‘to build up'  and  zimberen, , ‘to build.’ The primary meaning of the  was certainly ‘wood for building'; it is  allied to  domus,  δόμος,  dama,  domŭ, ‘house' ( ‘building of wood'); and also to the root   δέμω, ‘to build' (δέμας, ‘bodily frame'). <section end="Zimmer" /> <section begin="Zimmet" /> ,, ‘cinnamon,’ from the  zinemîn, zinmënt,  sinamin, ; from  cinamonium <section end="Zimmet" />