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

tid (comparative more tid, superlative most tid)

  1. (obsolete) tender; soft; nice

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

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

tid c (singular definite tiden, plural indefinite tider)

  1. time

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.

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

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

  1. time
  2. an age or era

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

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

From Proto-West Germanic *tīdi, 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.

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)
    3. a season, a fourth of the year
    • c. 994, Ælfric, On the Seasons of the Year
      Rōmanisc̄e lēodan ongynnað heora ġēar æfter hǣðenum ġewunan on winterlīċere tīde. Ebrei healdað heora geares annginn on lenctenlīcre emnihte. Đā Grēcisċan onginnað hyra ġēar æt ðām sunnstede; ⁊ ða Egiptisċan on hærfest.
      The Roman people begin theirs, after the heathen custom, in the winter time. The Hebrews observe the beginning of their year on the vernal equinox. The Greeks begin their year at the solstice; and the Egyptians in the fall.
    1. (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:

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

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”).

tid c

  1. (uncountable) time
  2. time, period, era
  3. slot, appointment

tid (nominative plural tids)

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