tid

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

• IPA^(key): /tɪd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪd

tid (comparative more tid, superlative most tid)

1. (obsolete) tender; soft; nice

• tidbit

• D.I.T., DIT, DTI, IDT, TDI, dit, it'd

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

• IPA^(key): ,
• Rhymes: -id

tid c (singular definite tiden, plural indefinite tider)

1. time

• overtid

• tid on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

• tidj (Föhr-Amrum)
• Tir (Sylt)

From Old Frisian tīd, from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz. Cognates include West Frisian tiid.

tid f (plural tide)

1. (Mooring) time

   Dåt grutst part foon daheere ferteelinge ståmt üt e tid twasche 1932 än 1936.

   The bulk of these stories were written during the time between 1932 and 1936.

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

tid

Wikipedia ^no

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

• IPA^(key): /tiːd/, /tiː/

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

1. time
2. an age or era

• “tid” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

tid

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• IPA^(key): /tiː/
• Homophone: ti

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

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

1. time
2. an age or era

• høgtid
• tide

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

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

1. (rare) frequent

• “tid” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• dit

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.

• IPA^(key): /tiːd/

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

   nōntīd ― nones

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

   Eāstertīd ― Eastertime

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

   bedtīd ― bedtime

7. a commemoration; an anniversary; a festival, especially a saint's day
8. (grammar) tense, the time indicated by the form of a verb

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.

Strong i-stem:

• tīma
• (3-hour period): stund
• (religious service): tīdsang, tīdþegnung, tīdweorþung

• Middle English: tyde, tid, tide, tyd
  • English: tide
  • Scots: tide
  • ⇒ Yola: enteete
  • → Scottish Gaelic: tìde

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “tīd”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• "tide, n.", and tid, n.¹, in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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”).

• IPA^(key): /tiːd/,

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -iːd

tid c

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

• tid in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

• dit

tid (nominative plural tids)

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