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Zun piece, language,’ zunga,, ‘tongue, domain of a language.’   tunga,  tunge,  tonge,  tunge,  tunge,  tongue,  and  tunga,  tunge,  tuggô. In non- occurs the cognate lingua, which is usually supposed to come from *dingua (like lacrima for dacrima, see ). tungôn, with, is scarcely allied to the root danç, ‘to bite, be pointed’ ( should be  ‘that which licks’); the relation to  juhû, jihvâ, ‘tongue,’ is uncertain.  ,, ‘ruined, undone,’ in the phrases , ‘to be ruined,’ , ‘to ruin, destroy,’ from ze nihte, ‘to nothing’; see.  ,, ‘pilser,’ only; probably allied to  zinsilo, ‘tinder’ (  zinden, ‘to burn’), mentioned under.  ,, ‘to pull, pluck,’ only, earlier  ; denominative from ; hence  means  ‘to drag by the hair’?. ,, ‘in order, aright,’ from ze rëhte,  zi rëhte, ‘aright’;   te rechte (see ).  , . ‘to be angry,’ from zürnen,  zurnen; denominative from.   ,, ‘back, backwards,’ from zerücke ( zurücke),  zi rucke, ‘backwards, behind one's back’;   terügge. Allied to ;  back.  ,, ‘together,’ from zesamene, zesamt,  zisamane, ‘together, jointly’;  ,.  ,, ‘to pluck’; probably a derivative of , zûsen.   ,, ‘confidence, reliance, conviction,’ from zuoversiht ( zûvorsiht),  zuofirsiht, , ‘foreseeing, glance into the future, expectation, hope.’ Allied, like , to.  ,, ‘before, beforehand, formerly,’ from late zuovor, zuovorn ( zûvor), ‘formerly, beforehand.’ Allied, like , to. , in, ‘to bring out, accomplish,’ from  ze wëge,  zi wëge, ‘on the (right) way.’  , , and. ,, ‘at times, sometimes,’ only; in  under wîlen or wîlen, wîlent, ‘once, formerly.’ Similarly,   , , ;. ,, ‘importunate,’  only; implying  *ze wider, formed in a similar way to   ( zegęgene),  ‘against’; see. ,, ‘to pinch, tease, cheat,’ from zwacken, ‘to pluck, tug’; a graded form of. ,, ‘to wash,’ see. ,, ‘compulsion, force, restraint,’ from twanc, zwanc (g), , ‘compulsion, distress, oppression’ (  des lîbes twanc, ‘tenesmus, constipation’),  dwang (gidwang), , ‘distress, contraction, compulsion’; abstract of. Allied to ,, ‘to squeeze, constrain, force,’ of ,  twęngen, ‘to use violence to, squeeze in, oppress,’  dwęngen, ‘to use violence to’ ( and  zwangen, zwęngen, ‘to pinch’;   zwange, ‘tongs’); see also. A root þwenh (Aryan twenk) is implied by  dûhen,  duwen,  þŷan, ‘to press, oppress’ (from *þunhjan). ,, ‘twenty,’ from the  zweinzec, zwênzic,  zweinzug; a common West  numeral. twêntig, and  twintig,  twintich,  twêntig (from twœ̂gentig?),  twenty (see ). The n of the first component seems to be a mark of the , as in  zwên-e,  twêgen; see. ,, ‘indeed, truly, of course,’ from zwâre, ze wâre, ‘in truth,’  zi wâre ( wâr, , ‘truth,’ an  used as a ). Connected, like ( vür war, ‘truly), with.  ,, ‘nail, plug; aim, object, design, goal,’ from zwëc (-ckes), , ‘nail, plug in the centre of the target; aim, object, design’;  , , and. How the word ( ‘nail’) acquired its most prevalent meaning ‘design’ is explained by the  term, of which the central idea is ‘the object aimed at in the target’; other cognates of the  word are wanting.  ,, see.  ,, ‘towel,’ from twęhele, twęhel, dwęhele, dwêle,  (also quęhele,  ), ‘drying cloth, towel,’  dwahila, dwęhila, dwahilla.<section end="Zwehle" />