# diz
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɪz/
* Rhymes: -ɪz

### Etymology 1

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Probably from dizen, dize (“to dress with flax for spinning”), equivalent to the first element of distaff.

#### Noun

diz (plural dizzes)
* A tool, often a flat circle, with one or more holes for passing wool through to form roving of a specified thickness.
** 2014, Beth Smith, The Spinner's Book of Fleece, page 118:A diz is a tool that helps you remove fiber from a comb and create a nice length of top that is a consistent thickness and ready to spin. Many dizzes have holes of varying sizes, so that you can choose the size most appropriate for the yarn you intend to spin: a large hole for bulky yarn, a smaller hole for finer yarn.

#### Verb

diz (third-person singular simple present dizzes, present participle dizzing, simple past and past participle dizzed)
* To pass wool through a diz.

#### References

* ↑ John Mercer (1978) The Spinner's Workshop, Dorchester: Prism Press, →ISBN, page 85
* ↑ Maryanne Ladensack (2021 July 7) “Essentials: Niddy-noddy, doffer, and diz—oh, my!”, in Spin Off‎, Long Thread Media, archived from the original on 2022-12-15

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

diz
* third-person singular simple present indicative of de
* third-person singular simple present indicative of dee

#### References

* Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “diz”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.
* Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
* “Diz”, in Palgrave’s Word List: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎, archived from the original on 2024-09-05, from F[rancis] M[ilnes] T[emple] Palgrave, A List of Words and Phrases in Everyday Use by the Natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham […] (Publications of the English Dialect Society; 74), London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1896, →OCLC.

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tīŕ, *tǖŕ (“knee”). Cognate with Turkish diz (“knee”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

diz (definite accusative dizi, plural dizlər)
* knee
    diz çökmək (intransitive) ― to kneel
    diz çökdürmək (transitive) ― to cause to kneel

#### Declension
## Galician
### Verb

diz
* (reintegrationist norm) inflection of dizer:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Kamkata-viri
### Alternative forms

* dić (Eastern Kata-viri, Kamviri)

### Etymology

From Proto-Nuristani *didzwā, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *diȷ́ʰwáH, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈd̪iz/

### Noun

diz f (Western Kata-viri)
* tongue

### References

* ↑ Strand, Richard F. (2016) “d′iz”, in Nûristânî Etymological Lexicon‎

## Ladino
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دیز (diz, “knee”).

### Noun

diz m (Hebrew spelling דיז)
* (anatomy) knee (in humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank)
    Synonyms: djinoyo, rodiya
** 2013 November 30, Jacobo Sefamí, Miriam Moscona, Por mi boka: Textos de la diáspora sefardí en ladino‎, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, →ISBN, page 216:I kero ke este djigante entre i kayga en diz delantre de mi dulse amante […]And I want this giant to enter and fall to his knees before my sweet lover.

### References

* ↑ “diz”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.

## Louisiana Creole
### Etymology

Inherited from French dix (“ten”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /diz/
* Rhymes: -iz

### Numeral

diz
* ten

#### Usage notes

* Precedes vowel-initial words. See usage notes at dis.

## Navajo
### Noun

diz
* pile of trash and debris or driftwood accumulated in a stream by the whirling water

## Northern Kurdish
### Etymology

Related to Persian دزد (dozd).

### Noun

diz m or f
* thief

## Old French
### Noun

diz m
* inflection of dit:
** oblique plural
** nominative singular

## Old High German
### Etymology

from Proto-Germanic *þitt

### Determiner

diz
* nominative/accusative neuter singular of dese

### Pronoun

diz
* nominative/accusative neuter singular of dese

#### References

* Lander, Eric T. The History of the Reinforced Demonstrative in Nordic Regional Variation and Reconstruction, 65.

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒis/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒis/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒiʃ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈdiʃ/
* Rhymes: (Brazil) -is, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -iʃ
* Hyphenation: diz

### Verb

diz
* inflection of dizer:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romani
### Alternative forms

* dyiz

### Etymology

Borrowed from Iranian.

### Noun

diz f (nominative plural dizǎ)
* town, city
* castle

### References

* Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “diz”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 74
* Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i/e diz¹, -ǎ- ʒ. -ǎ, -ěn-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 128

## Turkish
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish دیز (diz, “knee”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (diz, “knee”), from Proto-Turkic *tīŕ, *tǖŕ (“knee”). Compare Hungarian térd (“knee”), a Turkic borrowing. See also dirsek (“elbow”), a derivation from the same root.
Cognate with Old Turkic 𐱅𐰃𐰕 (tiz, “knee”), Karakhanid [script needed] (tīz, “knee”), Southern Altai тизе (tize, “knee”), Azerbaijani diz (“knee”), Chuvash чӗр (čĕr, “knee”), Kazakh тізе (tıze, “knee”), Khakas тізек (tìzek, “knee”), Kyrgyz тизе (tize, “knee”), Tatar тез (tez, “knee”), Turkmen dy:z (“knee”), Tuvan дискек (diskek, “knee”), Uyghur تىز (tiz, “knee”), Uzbek tiz (“knee”), Yakut түһэх (tüheq, “knee”).

#### Noun

diz (definite accusative dizi, plural dizler)
* (anatomy) knee

##### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
diz
dizler
definite accusative
dizi
dizleri
dative
dize
dizlere
locative
dizde
dizlerde
ablative
dizden
dizlerden
genitive
dizin
dizlerin
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
dizim
dizlerim
2nd singular
dizin
dizlerin
3rd singular
dizi
dizleri
1st plural
dizimiz
dizlerimiz
2nd plural
diziniz
dizleriniz
3rd plural
dizleri
dizleri
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
dizimi
dizlerimi
2nd singular
dizini
dizlerini
3rd singular
dizini
dizlerini
1st plural
dizimizi
dizlerimizi
2nd plural
dizinizi
dizlerinizi
3rd plural
dizlerini
dizlerini
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
dizime
dizlerime
2nd singular
dizine
dizlerine
3rd singular
dizine
dizlerine
1st plural
dizimize
dizlerimize
2nd plural
dizinize
dizlerinize
3rd plural
dizlerine
dizlerine
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
dizimde
dizlerimde
2nd singular
dizinde
dizlerinde
3rd singular
dizinde
dizlerinde
1st plural
dizimizde
dizlerimizde
2nd plural
dizinizde
dizlerinizde
3rd plural
dizlerinde
dizlerinde
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
dizimden
dizlerimden
2nd singular
dizinden
dizlerinden
3rd singular
dizinden
dizlerinden
1st plural
dizimizden
dizlerimizden
2nd plural
dizinizden
dizlerinizden
3rd plural
dizlerinden
dizlerinden
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
dizimin
dizlerimin
2nd singular
dizinin
dizlerinin
3rd singular
dizinin
dizlerinin
1st plural
dizimizin
dizlerimizin
2nd plural
dizinizin
dizlerinizin
3rd plural
dizlerinin
dizlerinin :

##### Derived terms

* diz boyu
* diz çökmek
* diz kapağı
* dizini dövmek
* dizli
* dizlik
* dizsiz
* dizüstü

##### Related terms

* dirsek

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

diz
* second-person singular imperative of dizmek

### References

* ↑ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*dīŕ (*dǖŕ)”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
* ↑ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*t`i̯ū́ŕe”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill