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Dib  writers, constantly used till the end of the last century. diutisk (for theodiscus, the earliest records of the word are in the years 813, 842, 860), ‘German,’ properly only ‘pertaining to the people’ ( thiudisca liudi, ‘Teutons’);  preserves the corresponding þiudiskô,, in the sense of ‘like a heathen’ (in close connection with  ξθγικώς). The suffix isk denotes ‘pertaining to.’ The  diet,  diot, diota, ‘people,’ upon which this word is based, is preserved in such compound proper names as ; as an independent word it is also obsolete in ;  þeód;  þiuda,. The  is based upon a word — pre- teutâ, ‘people’ — found in many West Aryan languages;   tautà,, ‘country,’  tauta, ‘people, nation’;  túath, ‘people’; Oscan touto, ‘people’ (Livy calls the chief magistrate of the Campanian towns ‘medix tuticus’). Thus the word has a singular and comprehensive history; it was used in the earliest  and  writings only of the language (since 845 A.D. Theodisci occurs also as the name of a people, and first of all in Italy);, ‘popular,’ was the term applied to the native language in contrast to the  ecclesiastical speech and the  official phraseology. We may note Dutch, because it is restricted to the language of Holland; till about 1600 A.D. the people of Holland were convinced that their language was German. ,, , ‘to talk’ (especially in a low voice), from dibbèr, ‘to talk’. ,, ‘close, dense,’ deicht (Liv. and ), from  dîhte, ‘dense.’ The absence of the diphthong is probably due to , since the word does not occur in  ( and ). Corresponds to þéttr, ‘dense’ (related to  *þeihts, as léttr, ‘light,’ to  leihts); allied to the  root þinh (see ), just as  leihts to the root  (see ). tight, from tîht, has an abnormal t for th initially, probably due to the influence of  and  tœt; in  the normal thîht is also found. For another derivation see. ,, ‘to invent, imagine, write, fabricate,’ from tihten, ‘to write, draw up (in writing), compose, invent, excogitate’; the  meaning is very  much restricted compared with the fulness of. Even in the 16th and 17th  ( tihtœre) meant generally ‘writer, author,’ and was applied to the prose writer as well as the poet. The origin of ( tihtôn, ‘to write, compose’), from  dictare, ‘to dictate,’ late  also ‘to compose,’ may have favoured the change from  to ;  dihtan, which is of the same origin, has the further signification ‘to arrange, array.’ ,, ‘thick, stout, corpulent,’ from dic, dicke, , ‘thick, dense, frequent,’  dicchi, ‘thick, dense’; in  too the double meaning of the  obtains;   þykkr, þjǫkkr,  þicce,  thick. Corresponds to tiug (from *tigu), ‘thick,’ so that we must presuppose a  *þiqus. Beside which the double sense, ‘thick, dense,’ makes the kinship with probable. In the meaning ‘dense’ has been preserved in,  ‘a place densely overgrown’ ( used by sportsmen); in  dicke is the  term.  ,, ‘thief,’ from the  diep(b),  diob, ; common to the  group;   þiufs(b),  dief,  þeóf,  thief. The word cannot be traced beyond. In the sense of ‘,’ has a form with a dental suffix —  þŷfþ,  ( þýfð,,  *þiubiþa),  theft. The form in is a j- stem —  diuba (diuva),  diube (diuve), earlier   (as late as Logau, 1604-1655), which is now met with only in, ‘petty poaching.’ The latter forms the base of  , in  diepstâle and diupstâle ( þiufstolet),  ‘theft-stealing.’ The second part of the compound expresses the same idea as the first;  is simply the concrete which has replaced the abstract;   þiubi, , and its  form þiubjô, ‘secretly.’ Besides the  , there existed in  and  a feminine form, which in  would have been *þiubi;   diupa,  diupe, ‘female thief.’ We must seek for the  word in a pre- root with a final p; this is proved by  diuva,  diuve, , ‘theft’;  the Aryan root tup, ‘to duck,’ under.   ,, ‘plank, board,’ from dil, dille, , , ‘board, partition of boards, boarded floor’ (in  ‘vestibule’), 