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Die dili, (?), dilla,, with the same meaning. Originally þeloz, þiliz,, ‘board,’ was þiljôn, ‘made of boards’;   þël, ‘board,’  þilja, ‘rowing seat’ ( teljo ‘ship's beam, oar-bench,’ comes from ). further deel, ‘board, floor,’  dêle, ‘board.’  tile, ‘plank of a boat,’  tĭlo, ‘ground,’  tala-m, ‘surface,’ seem to be  allied; also  tellus, ‘earth’?.  ,, ‘to serve, attend upon, be of use to,’ from the  dienen,  dionôn ( thionôn);   dienen,  *þiunôn. The latter is formed in the same way as reikinôn, ‘to rule,’ from reiks, ‘ruler,’ fraujinôn, ‘to be master of,’ from frauja, ‘master’; that is to say, is based upon  þius (stem þiwa-), ‘servant, menial.’   þeów, ‘servant,’  deo, ‘menial’ ; also a  form,  þiwi,  and  diu, ‘maid-servant'; another similar old  form is. The corresponding abstract —, dienest, , ,  dionôst,  (  thionost, ), is worth noting from the grammatical point of view on account of the suffix st ( , also  ofost, ‘haste,’ with the same suffix). From fraujinassus, ‘rule,’ þiudinassus, ‘reign,’ we should have expected  þiunassus, ‘the state of a servant, service,’ that is to say, the  suffix -niss for nest. Moreover, before the w of þiwa- a g may have disappeared, so that the  root was possibly þegw; in that case the  þegnoz, ‘sword’ ( *þigns), would belong to the same stem as  and.  ,, ‘Tuesday,’ a West word, which has quite as important a bearing upon the religious views of the Teutons as. Originally there were three names for the day. One contains in the first component of the compound the name of the god Tiu, to whom the day was sacred;  Týsdagr,  Tîwesdœg,  Tuesday, preserve this name in the  (  baurgswaddjus, just as if  were used for ; see ). Zio ( Týr) is a deity whose worship the Teutons brought with them from their Asiatic home; it is identical with  Ζεύς (for δjεύς),  Διός (for διϝός, hence corresponding to  *Tius-dags);  Jupiter, Jovis (for *djovis);  Djâus,  Divás;  the word meant simply ‘sky,’ then the sky  personified as a god. Among the Teutons appears as a god of war; this change of meaning is explained by the supposition that, corresponding to the Greek Zeus, was at first regarded simply as the chief god, but was afterwards connected with the main occupation of our ancestors, i.e. war (see ). From Tiu, Zio, ‘Tuesday’ in OAlem. is termed Ziostac,  Ziestac (Ziestag in Hebel). Another appellation is the Ertac (Erchtag), instead of which, on the adoption of Christianity in the east of Suabia, the word aftermœntig, ‘after Monday,’ was introduced. In the and  dialects the term dingestag has existed from time immemorial, and was at one time incorrectly thought to mean ‘court-day’ (see ). The latter word, however, is based rather on an attribute of the Tiu, who in a - inscription is designated Mars Thingsus. Thinx is the term for, ‘assembly of the people,’ hence Thinxus, the god of the assemblies. Among the, , and tribes Tuesday was sacred to this god;   dinxendach,  dingsedach, earlier  dingsdag.  ,, ‘this, the latter,’ from the  diser,  disêr, earlier dësêr; corresponds to  þes,  this. See the grammars for further details.  ,, ‘false key’ (in ), occurs late in ; the age of the word and of its meaning is attested by the loan-word  dyrk ( dirk), which has the same signification, and is, like the  proper name , ‘Derry,’ a pet name from , ‘Derrick.’ Similarly, instead of ‘,’  , ‘Peterkin,’ and  , ‘Nick,’ are used, probably because , ‘Peter,’ like , ‘Derrick,’ and , ‘Nicholas,’ are favourite Christian names, which might serve to veil (in thieves' slang?) the term ‘false key’ (  grimaldello) The word in  is miteslüȥȥel,  aftersluȥȥil.   ,, ‘dill.’ In the  form is current, just as in the case of. tille,, , is used of the same umbelliferous plant (anethum), tilli, ;   dile,  dill; of obscure origin.   ,, ‘thing, matter, transaction,’ from and  dinc(g), , ‘thing, matter,’  ‘judicial proceeding, 