Zoodochos (, before 1955: ÃÂÿýÃÂïûñ, Zontila) is a settlement in Ioannina regional unit, Epirus, Greece. The village is located in the Kourenta area.
Tzontila, the local form of the placename is derived from the Albanian word çotill/ë -a meaning 'the stamp, the wood with which butter is beaten'. It stems from the Albanian toçill/ë, -a 'potter's wheel' and through transposition is from a Slavic word rendered in Bulgarian as toÃÂilo and in Serbian toÃÂilj meaning 'anvil'.
The placename was formed as tà ¡otila, earlier çottila, where the sound tà ¡ became dà ¾ through grammatical conjugation within the toponym, with the -n of the article used in its prepositional pronunciation: zn tà ¡otila, later zn dà ¾udi'la, while the assimilation of the t become d: dà ¾-t into dà ¾-d and narrowing of the unstressed o to u. Linguist Kostas Oikonomou states the toponym's rendition in Albanian is also strengthened through the formation of the demonym dà ¾dil'at -s, dà ¾dil'at -sa, as it has the Albanian suffix -at(i) which is used in family and national names.
Some inhabitants were forced to abandon the village, resettled in the Zagori region and established a village with the name Tzontila (modern Dikoryfo). The village in Kourenta is known as Paliotz'dila (Old Tzontila) by villagers from Dikoryfo.