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Duc down';  tupeti, ‘to squat,’ tupti, ‘to squat down.’  ,, ‘to bow, duck, stoop, dive,’ with initial d, from  tucken, tücken, ‘to incline the body quickly, bend, bow';  a frequentative of  tûchen, ‘to dive,’ which see.  , ‘sly, stealthy person,’ appears in as tockelmûser, ‘sneak, hypocrite’; the  form is based anew on,  tucken. A parallel form is based on, ‘malice,’ the second part of the compound being connected with  mûsen,  ‘to catch mice,’ then (with thievish intent), ‘to sneak.’  ,, simply formed from the   dudlić, ‘to play the bagpipes,’ from dudy, ‘bagpipe.’   (1.),, see.    (2.),, ‘exhalation, odour,’ with initial d, from  tuft, , ‘vapour, fog, dew, rime,’  tuft, ‘frost’; of obscure origin.  , (unknown to the, and perhaps also to the other  dialects), ‘to bear, tolerate, suffer,’ from the   and  dulten; a denominative of  dult,  dult, ,. The Goth used þulan for without the dental  ( dolên,  doln, both far more general in meaning than the , ‘to suffer’;  þolian, ‘to suffer’). The pre- root is tel, tol, tlê, which appears, exactly corresponding to the meaning of the cognates, in  τλή-μων ‘to suffer,’ τλή-μων, ‘miserable,’ πολύτλας, ‘much enduring,’ &c. tolerâre and ( perferre), show that  tollo ( latus tor *tlâ-tus;  tuli, from offero), and  τολμᾶν, ‘to venture, endure,’ may be cognates. Hence the primary sense of the root appearing in the graded forms tel, tol, tlê, tlâ, is ‘to bear, tolerate.’ See.  ,, ‘fair,’ with  initial d, from  tult, , ‘fair, church festival, dedication festival,’  tuld. The word is the term for ‘festival’;  dulþs,, ‘festival, holiday.’  ,, ‘stupid, silly,’ from tum (, -mmes), tump ( -bes), ‘stupid, foolish, weak in understanding, dumb,’  tumb. In dumbs,  dumbr the  is  to  and  dumb; the  word, in addition to the mean - ings of, has likewise the signification ‘deaf,’ which also belongs to  in early. ‘Dull in sense and intellect’ may be the primary sense of the, which has not yet been found in the non- languages; too has a peculiar history; see ,. Words expressing the perceptions of one sense are often transferred to those of another. Hence dumbs, ‘dumb,’  tumb, ‘deaf, dumb,’ may possibly be allied to  τυφλός, ‘blind’ (root dhubh; τυφ by the well-known rule for θυφ). This conjectural etymology is quite as uncertain as that offered under. ,, ‘damp, dull, heavy,’ only; formed by the weakest stage of gradation from  dimpfen,  , ‘to fume, smoke’;  also  dumpfen, dümpfen, ‘to fume, damp.’ The  sense of the  is probably ‘smoky,’ i.e. ‘damp,’ or ‘dimming the sight and dulling the hearing’;  appears in  dompig, with the meaning ‘damp, gloomy.’ Perhaps the word is connected with ;   dank.  ,, ‘down, dune,’ simply from the   düne ( *dûna),  duin (whence  dune); respecting  ü from  ui,  ,. Akin to dûn, ‘hill,’  down (‘plateau’), So too  down, ; for  adûne, ofdûne, ‘from the mountain, towards the valley,’ corresponds exactly to  ze tal (  à mont, ‘up the stream’). Likewise θύραζε, ‘before the door,’ has the general meaning ‘outside’;  ze bërge is ‘aloft, upwards’;  , ‘one's hair stands on end.’ The düne group ( down) seems to have spread from  into  and  ( besides , , ). Hence the assumption that dûn is of  origin is not to be discarded —  dûn, ‘hill’ ( the  names of towns ending in dûnum, Augustodiunum, Lugdunum); though the attempt to show that it is  allied to  θῖν ( θίς), ‘sea-beach,’ and  dhánu-s, ‘dry land, continent, inhospitable land,’ cannot be recommended;  dûn would be pre- dhûnâ (the indubitable form of the cognate word in ).   ,, with initial d; ‘dung, manure,’ from  tunge, , ‘dung, manuring’;  tunc, , , signifies 