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Dei teixmo; âla from *axla, under ). The Aryans had learnt the way to build waggons in their Asiatic home ere the separated into different tribes: this is proved by the words, , ,.

 (2.),, ‘adze’;  dëhsel,  dëhsala, ‘axe, hatchet’; from a  root þehs,  to Aryan teks. tesati, ‘to hew,’ taszýti, ‘to hew, fashion with an axe,’  takšan, ‘carpenter’ (see under ). The ei of the word is based upon a variant þîhs, which is  and ; numerous  dialects preserve the old e.  ,, ‘thy,’ from the   and  dîn, corresponds to  þeins,  þîn,  thy, thine; related to.  ', ',, ‘diamond, adamant,’ from the  diamant, dîemant, from  diamant,  diamante ( adamantem).   ,, ‘submissiveness, humility,’ from the  dêmuot, diemuot, diemüete,  deomuoti, ‘condescension, gentleness, modesty.’ The correctly developed form from the  deomuoti would be  ; the present form is due partly to  influence, partly to its having been connected with ; but while in the latter  is properly a suffix,  deomuoti, , is a compound. The second component is a of  muot (see );  dio, however, is  þius (stem þiwa-; , , and also ), ‘hind, servant’;  is ‘the befitting quality of a servant, the disposition of the attendant.’ Neither the word nor the idea is  (the  said hauneins, ‘abasement, baseness,’ for ); both were introduced by Christianity.  ,, from the  tęngeln, ‘to sharpen by hammering, beat, hammer’; the  d points, as in the case of , to a  influence;   dęncgan, ‘to knock, ding,’  to ding. Akin to tangol, ‘hammer’;  *diggwan, ‘to strike,’ indicated also by  diunga,  dänga, is not recorded. ,, ‘to think, call to mind, conceive, believe,’ from dęnken,  dęnchen, ‘to think, bear in mind, devise, excogitate’; corresponds to  þagkjan (þankjan), ‘to consider, ponder, reflect,’  þęncan. to think, is an intermediate form between  þęncan, ‘to think,’ and þyncan, ‘to seem.’  is in form a factitive of, which was originally a  , meaning ‘to seem’; ‘to make a thing seem’ is ‘to consider, ponder.’ See. ,, ‘for,’ from danne, dęnne,  danne, danna; identical with. ,, ‘the,’ formed from the and   and  stem dë-;   þa-,  το-,  ta-. The details belong to grammar. ,, ‘compact, stout, blunt, uncouth,’ derived in form from dërp (b), ‘unleavened,’ but blended in meaning with a word , , ‘worthy, honest’ (see ), deduced from  and  bidérbe. dërp, dërb, ‘unleavened,’ are equiv to  þjarfr,  þeorf,  therf. is related to, but , ‘unleavened,’ on account of its meaning, cannot belong to the same stem; it is connected rather with the root. ,, ‘so much the,’ from the  dëste, dëst, late  dësde; in an earlier form two words, dës diu (dës, , diu,  of the ); the  word was simply þê ( of the ); thus, too,  þŷ before comparatives,  the (the more, ).  , see.   ,, ‘doit, trifle,’ simply , from duit, ‘smallest coin’ (whence also  doit); the latter is of  origin;  þveit, ‘a small coin’ (from þvíta, ‘to cut’).  ,, ‘to point, beckon, interpret, explain,’ from diuken, tiuten,  diuten, , ‘to show, point, signify, notify, explain, translate’;  *þiudjan;   þýða. In place of þiudjan, has a form þiuþjan, ‘to praise, laud,’ which, however, is scarcely identical with. Probably the latter signifies rather ‘to make popular’; þiuda is the word for ‘nation’ (see .   ze diute, ‘distinct, evident,’ and ‘in German’ (diute,   of diuti, tiute,, ‘exposition, explanation’); note too  geþeóde, ‘language’ (as the main characteristic of the nation). , , ‘German,’ from the   diutsch, tiutsch; the initial d of the  and  words is , the earlier form,  ( tiutsch), is , and was, especially by the