tid

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See also: TID, tið, tíd, tíð, and -tid

English

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Etymology

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Uncertain; possibly a back-formation from *tidder, from Old English tēdre, tȳdre (weak; tender). More at tidder.

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Adjective

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tid (comparative more tid, superlative most tid)

  1. (obsolete) tender; soft; nice

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse tíð, from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz, cognate with English tide, Dutch tijd (time) and German Zeit (time).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈtˢiˀð], [ˈtˢiðˀ]
  • Rhymes: -id

Noun

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tid c (singular definite tiden, plural indefinite tider)

  1. time

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North Frisian

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Etymology

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From Old Frisian tīd, from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *dīti- (time, period), from *dī- (time). Cognates include Föhr-Amrum North Frisian tidj, West Frisian tiid.

Noun

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tid f

  1. (Mooring dialect) time
    Dåt grutst part foon daheere ferteelinge ståmt üt e tid twasche 1932 än 1936.
    Most of the story takes place during the time between 1932 and 1936.

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Old Norse tíð (time), from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *dīti- (time, period), from *dī- (time).

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Noun

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tid f or m (definite singular tida or tiden, indefinite plural tider, definite plural tidene)

  1. time
  2. an age or era

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse tíð (time), from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *dīti- (time, period), from *dī- (time).

Noun

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tid f (definite singular tida, indefinite plural tider, definite plural tidene) (dative form tide)

  1. time
  2. an age or era
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Etymology 2

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From Old Norse tíðr, from Proto-Germanic *tīdijaz.

Adjective

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tid (neuter tidt, definite singular and plural tide, comparative tidare, indefinite superlative tidast, definite superlative tidaste)

  1. (rare) frequent

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Old English

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *tīdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *dīti- (time, period), from *dī- (time).

Cognate with Old Frisian tīd, Old Saxon tīd, Old Dutch tīt, Old High German zīt, and Old Norse tíð; see also modern cognates at tide.

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Noun

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tīd f (nominative plural tīda or tīde)

  1. time in general
  2. time as a defined period or span, particularly:
    1. a tide, a fourth of the day or night
    2. an hour, a twelfth of the day or night
    Wæs hit þā ān tīd tō ǣfenes.It was then one hour before evening. (Alexander's Letter to Aristotle)
    1. a season, a fourth of the year
    2. (especially in the plural) an age, an era
  3. the hour, the moment determined by a sundial or other device marking the division between the tides or hours
    nōntīdnones
  4. (Christianity) the religious service held at a canonical hour, four of which were equivalent to the daylight tides
  5. the season, the favorable or proper period for an action, especially with regard to farming or (Christianity) the holy seasons of the liturgical year
    EāstertīdEastertime
  6. 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
    bedtīdbedtime
  7. a commemoration; an anniversary; a festival, especially a saint's day
  8. (grammar) tense, the time indicated by the form of a verb

Usage notes

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Frequently suffixed to a period of day or season (ǣfentīd, wintertīd) to show consideration of it as a span of time, as modern English -time (evening time, wintertime) or archaic English -tide (eventide, wintertide).

Although tīd was used for natural cycles of time, it was apparently not used for the cycles of the ocean and other large bodies of water until Middle English (c. 1340). The Old English terms for the tide were instead flōd and ebba.

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Seasons in Old English · tīde (layout · text) · category
lencten (spring) sumor (summer) hærfest (autumn) winter (winter)

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Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Swedish tīþ (time), Old Norse tíð, from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *dīti- (time, period), from Proto-Indo-European *dī- (time).

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Noun

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tid c

  1. (uncountable) time
  2. time, period, era

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Declension of tid 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative tid tiden tider tiderna
Genitive tids tidens tiders tidernas
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Volapük

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Noun

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tid (nominative plural tids)

  1. instruction (act of teaching, or that which is taught)

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