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Din ’ (for a similar change of meaning ); the corresponding  þing (thing), meaning ‘judicial transaction, court-day, court of justice,’ is well known. The þing ( thinx) is therefore connected with the old mahal, maþl, as ‘assembly of the people’ (see ). In the  ( þing,,  thing) has essentially the  meaning; but the  þingan, ‘to make a treaty,’ þingian, ‘to settle, adjust,’ and þingung, ‘mediation,’ imply also ‘treaty, discussion.’ In  a remnant of the earlier meaning remained in , from  ‘to hold a court, negotiate, make a treaty’ (whence  , ‘stipulation’), and specially ‘to conclude a bargain, buy, hire’ (also generally ‘to talk,’ like  þingian, ‘to talk’); so, too, in ,. Hence the primary meaning of the is ‘public transaction in the folk-moot,’  ‘term’; this is supported by  þeihs, ‘time,’ from pre- ténkos (equal to  tempus). The Aryan base of thinx,  ding, is tenkos. The tęza,, ‘judicial transaction,’ is of  origin.   ,, from the  dinkel,  dinchil, , ‘bearded wheat, spelt’; of obscure origin.   , see.   ,, ‘dittany,’ from the  dictam, diptam; borrowed from  δίπταμνος.   ,, ‘lass, hussy, wench’ (not found in ), from dirne, dierne,  diorna, ‘maid-servant, girl, wench,’   deern,  thiorna,  þerna, ; in  probably *þiwaírnô;  widuwaírna, ‘orphan,’  sense perhaps ‘widow's son.’ Thus, too, *þiwaírnô, ‘menial's, thrall's daughter, who is therefore herself a slave, i.e, a servant.’ The  syllable is a diminutive suffix ; the stem is indisputably þiwa-, ‘menial.’ For further cognates, see ,.   ,, ‘thistle,’ from the  distel,  and ,  distila, , distil, ; corresponds to  and  distel,  þistel,  thistle,  þistell. Modern and  dialects have î in the accented syllable; hence the root is þī̆st? Akin to wiga-deinô, ‘milk-thistle’?.   ,, ‘peg, wedge,’ from tübel. , ‘pin, plug, nail’; tubilî,, ‘plug’   dowel,  deuvik,  ‘plug.’ The  root dub, upon which it is based, appears in  dubba; so, too, perbups in  dùbti, ‘to get hollow,’ daubà, důbě, ‘pit.’ The d of the  word is due to  influence.  ,, ‘yet, however,’ from doch,  dŏh, ‘yet,’ also ‘although’; ŏ, on account of the toneless nature of the , is shortened from ô;  þáuh, corresponding to  þeáh,  though. Scarcely from þa (variant of þata, daȥ) and uh, ‘and.’  þauh is  ‘and that’?.  ,, ‘wick.’ The strictly form should be dacht, which is still dialectal, as well as the variant tacht, with the t from þ, as in ,  and  tâkt, , ;   þáttr, ‘thread, wick.’ A  root, þêh, þêg, still appears in Swiss dœgel, ‘wick,’  dâhen,  dôche, ‘wick.’ In the non- languages no  root têk has as yet been found. For another term for, see under. <section end="Docht" /> <section begin="Dock" /> ,, ‘dock,’ simply ModHG; from the  dock, the origin of which is very obscure. From and  (dok) the word was adopted by, , , and. <section end="Dock" /> <section begin="Docke" /> ,, ‘doll,’ from tocke, , ‘doll,’ also ‘young girl,’  toccha, ‘doll.’ The word is not sound in the oldest periods of the other dialects, nor can the  meanings, ‘skein, yarn,’ be authenticated from , , and the early stages of cognate languages; yet there is no reason to doubt the real  origin of the word. <section end="Docke" /> <section begin="Dogge" /> ,, ‘bulldog, mastiff’ simply , from the  and  dog (from about 1050 A.D. the word occurs in  as docga), whence also  dogue. With regard to gg, as a proof of a word being borrowed from,. <section end="Dogge" /> <section begin="Dohle" /> ,, ‘jackdaw,’ from the  tâhele, tâle, tâhe,  tâha, ; primary form *dêhwô, dêwô, according to  *dâwe,  daw, whence also  caddow, ‘daw’ (the first part of the compound is  câ,  kâ,  châha, ‘daw’; so, too,  chough). From þâhwalô is derived  taccola, ‘magpie.’ <section end="Dohle" /> <section begin="Dohne" /> ,, ‘gin, noose, springe,’ from don, done, , ‘stretching,’  dona, ‘branch twig.’  is the ‘branch bent or stretched for catching birds.’ The Aryan root ten, ‘to stretch, extend,’ is discussed under ,. tonoto, <section end="Dohne" />