tid
Old English
noun
Definitions
- time in general
- time as a defined period or span, particularly:
- the hour, the moment determined by a sundial or other device marking the division between the tides or hours
- (Christianity) the religious service held at a canonical hour, four of which were equivalent to the daylight tides
- the season, the favorable or proper period for an action, especially with regard to farming or (Christianity) the holy seasons of the liturgical year
- the time, the hour, the favorable, proper, or allotted moment for an action or event, the occasion when something can or ought to be done
- a commemoration; an anniversary; a festival, especially a saint's day
- (grammar) tense, the time indicated by the form of a verb
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz (time, period, interval) derived from Proto-Indo-European *dīti- (period, time).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*dīti-
Gloss
period, time
Concept
Semantic Field
Time
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *deh₂y- Proto-Indo-European
- *déh₂itis Proto-Indo-European
- *dī- Proto-Indo-European
- *dīti- Proto-Indo-European
- tid Norwegian Bokmål
- *tīdiz Proto-Germanic
- tid Norwegian Nynorsk
- tīd Old English
- hátíð Old Norse
- tíð Old Norse
- tid Danish
- tíð Icelandic
- tijt Middle Dutch
- *zīd Old High German
- zīt Old High German
- tíð Faroese
- zit Middle High German
- zīt Middle High German
- *tīdi gmw-pro
- tīt Old Dutch
- tît Middle Low German
- tīd Old Saxon
- tiþ Old Swedish
- tiþ, tīþ Old Swedish
- tiid Western Frisian
- tīd Old Frisian
- tid North Frisian
- tidj North Frisian
- taið Elfdalian