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Luxembourgish
Etymology
From Old High German *zīd, northern variant of zīt, from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz. Cognate with German Zeit, Dutch tijd, English tide, West Frisian tiid, Icelandic tíð.
The plural Zäiten was adapted to the singular; the inherited form would have been *Zeiden. The prevocalic stem zeid- remains in zeideg (“ripe”), with the doublet zäiteg (“timely”) formed after the underlying noun. The third stem zeit- in Zeitung (“newspaper”) is borrowed from German (displacing obsolete Luxembourgish Zeideng).
Pronunciation
Noun
Zäit f (plural Zäiten, diminutive Zäitchen)
- time
- epoch, era
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