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But  butyrum (whence beurre,  burro), late - βούτυρον. Yet the art of making butter was known in Germany ere the introduction of the term from the South of Europe. Butter was called, as is still the case in ;  and ; perhaps the process in the south was different, and with the new method came the new term. The art of making cheese may have found its way earlier, even before the middle of the 9th, from the South of Europe to the North. See.   ,, ‘core, snuff (of candles),’ first occurs in ; cognate with the Swiss bœ̄ke,  (bätzi, bätzgi). The structure of the word resembles  ; see under. Probably, therefore, represents *bugze, *bûgaȥ (Swiss bœ̄ke, from *bauggyô)?.

 

   ,, ‘there, then, since,’ from the  dâr, dâ,  dâr; the loss of the final r ( still remained in ; see ) is seen also in other :  sâ, from  sâ, sâr, ‘soon, at once’ (cognate with  soon),. þœ̂r, there, corresponds to  dâr;  þar (instead of the expected form *þêr). The is formed from the    þa-,  το-, described under ; the r of  dâr and  þar appears in  tárhi, ‘at that time’ (hi is an enclitic particle like  γέ);  also  kárhi, ‘when,’ under. As to the variation of and  meanings in, see.  ,, ‘roof, cover, shelter,’ from dach, , ‘roof, covering, ceiling, awning,’  dah; it corresponds to  þœc, ‘roof,’  thatch,  þak;  *Þak, ‘roof,’ is wanting, the term used being hrôt, the   term for ‘roof,’ allied to. The art of constructing houses (see under, , , , , , , &c.) was not yet developed when the Teutons were migrating from East to West; hence most of the technical terms are peculiar to Teutonic. The primary meaning of the word is apparent, since it is formed by gradation from a  root Þek, Aryan teg, ‘to cover’;  tego, tegere;  τέγος,, ‘roof’; the same stage of gradation as in   is seen in  toga (‘the covering garment’),  tugurium, ‘hut.’ The same root appears in  with a prefix s, στέγω, ‘I cover,’ στέγη, ‘roof,’ as well as in  stógas,  ‘roof,’  sthágâmi, ‘I cover.’ Hence the  , like the   τέγος, στέγη,  stógas (akin to stěgti, ‘to cover’), signifies properly ‘the covering part. ’   ,, ‘badger,’ from the  dahs,  dahs, ; undoubtedly a genuine  word, like , , though it cannot be authenticated in the non- languages ( and  das). It was adopted by ( taxus,  tasso,  taisson). It is probable that the animal, specially characterised by its winter burrow, received its name from the Aryan root teks, ‘to construct.’ In the root takš properly signifies ‘to construct skilfully, make, build’ (a carriage, pillars of an altar, a settle), while the name of the agent formed from it — takšan — denotes ‘carpenter, worker in wood.’ To the same root belong  τόξον, ‘bow,’ τέκτων, ‘carpenter’; in  also  dëhsala,  dëhsel, ‘hatchet, axe.’   ,, ‘box on the ear’; like , properly a euphemism used in jest for a blow. is an older form for. further the term, ‘blows on the head,’ the sense of which expresses, of course, something different from what is usually understood by the word. See.  ,, ‘to talk nonsense,’ from the ;  to dally (the initial d indicates that the word was borrowed), which is traced back to  þylja, ‘to chatter.’  ,, ‘destruction, ruin,’ ; <section end="Dalles" />