tid

Compare Old English tēdre, tȳdre (“weak; tender”). More at tidder.

tid (comparative more tid, superlative most tid)

1. (obsolete) tender; soft; nice

• tidbit

• D.I.T., DTI, IDT, TDI, dit, it'd

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

• IPA^(key): /tid/, [tˢið]

tid c (singular definite tiden, plural indefinite tider)

1. time

• overtid

• tid on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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.

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.

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

• “tid” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

• IPA^(key): /tiː/
• Homophone: ti

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

1. time
2. an age or era

• “tid” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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 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
   3. A season, a fourth of the year
   4. (especially in plural) An age, an era
2. The hour, the moment determined by a sundial or other device marking the division between the tides or hours

   nōntīd

   nones

3. (Christianity) The religious service held at a canonical hour, four of which were equivalent to the daylight tides
4. 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

5. 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

6. A commemoration; an anniversary; a festival, especially a saint's day.
7. (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.

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

• Middle English: tide
  • English: tide
  • Scots: tid, tyd, tide

• "tīd" in Bosworth & Toller's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1882), Oxford: Clarendon 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/, [tʰiːd]

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• Rhymes: -iːd

tid c

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

• tid in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

tid (plural tids)

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