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Zit de-dru-, a reduplicated form (like ); zittaroh is borrowed from it.  ,, ‘to tremble, shake, quiver,’ from the  zitern, zittern,  zittarôn,  ; corresponding to  titra, ‘to twinkle, wink, tremble’ (old tr remains unpermutated in ;  , , and ). is one of the few  which have a reduplicated present (see ). From the implied  *ti-trô-mi the transition to the weak ô conjugation is easily understood, just as the change of  *rî-rai-mi, ‘I tremble’ (  reiran, ‘to shake,’ from an Aryan root rai-), to the similarly sounding weak ai conjugation. In the non- languages no cognates of have been found (Aryan root drā̆?). The word was adopted by ;   zittre, ‘to shake.’  ,, ‘zedoary,’ from the  zitwar, zitwan,  citawar, zitwar, ; from  zeduarium, the source of which is  zedwâr. The zedoary was introduced into European medical science by the Arabs ( also zettovario,  zédoaire,  zedoary).   ', ',, ‘chintz,’ from the  sits, chits,  chintz. The ultimate source of the word is Bengalî chits, ‘variegated cotton.’   ,, ‘nipple, teat,’ from the late  (rare) zitze, ;  the corresponding  titte, ,  tet, ,  tit,  ( tittas),  teat, Swiss tisse, ‘teat.’ The usual word for ‘teat’ in  is tutta, tuta, , tutto, tuto, ;  tutte, tute, , tütal, ;. In Romance occur the cognate words — tetta, zizza, zezzolo, ‘teat,’  tette,, teton, tetin, , ‘nipple,’  teta, as well as  tettare,  tetar,  teter, ‘to suck’; the double forms with t and z imply that these words were borrowed from.   ,, ‘sable (Mustella zibellina), sable-fur,’ from the  zobel, ; borrowed from  sobol (  zobel). From the same source are derived sabellum ( sable,  sable) and sabellinus, whence  zibellino,  zebellina,  zibeline.   , see.   ,, ‘maid, wanting-woman,’ only, formed from  zâfen (zôfen), ‘to draw, arrange suitably, nurse, adorn’; zâfe, , ‘ornament’; hence ,  ‘adorning maid.’   ,, ‘to linger, loiter, defer,’ only, a derivative of  zogen,  zogôn, ‘to tug, draw, go, defer, retard.’ An intensive form of ;   toga,  to tug. For the development of meaning further  , ‘to wander aimlessly.’ <section end="zögern" /> <section begin="Zögling" /> ,, ‘pupil,’ only; formed with the suffix  from  *zoge, ‘guide, leader,’ in magezoge, ‘tutor,’  magazogo, ‘paedagogus’ (see ); allied to. <section end="Zögling" /> <section begin="Zoll" />  (1.),, ‘inch,’ from the  zol,  and , which is probably identical with  zol, , ‘cylindrical piece, log’;   îszolle, ‘icicle.’

 (2.),, ‘duty, toll, dues,’ from and  zol, , ‘custom-house, toll, duty’; corresponding to the   and  tol,  toll,  tol,  tollr. Usually regarded as borrowed from telonium,  τελώνιον, ‘custom-house, toll.’ The  words are, however, in spite of the lack of a  *tulls (for which môta occurs;  ), so old, and correspond so closely, that they must be regarded as of genuine  origin. is connected with the root tal (appearing in and ), of which it is an old  in no- (ll from ln), and hence it signified originally ‘that which is counted.’ —

Derivative ,, ‘collector,’ receiver of customs,’ from zolnœre, zolner,  zollanâri, zolneri,. Corresponding to tolnêre, tollêre,  toller,  tollenaar,  tolner,  tolder;   tolna, ‘toll.’ <section end="Zoll" /> <section begin="Zone" /> ,, ‘zone,’ only, from the  - ζώνη. <section end="Zone" /> <section begin="Zopf" /> , ‘(long) plait of hair, pigtail, cue, tuft,’ from  and  zopf,, ‘end, peak, cue.’ Corresponding to  topp,  top, ‘end, peak,’  and  top ( variant tuft),  toppr, ‘tuft of hair,’  top, ‘tuft,’  topp,  top, ‘point, end, cue.’ A common  word, by chance not recorded in. The meaning seems to be ‘projecting end’; hence   ‘points of the hair when tied together’ (  and ). The value attached even in the Middle Ages to long plaits of hair as an element of female beauty is attested especially by the fact that the and  women when taking an oath held their plaits in their hands. Among the Teutons, to cut a person's hair was to brand<section end="Zopf" />