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mealtide

Today it means: The tide or time when one receives their part, portion, or measure of food; the hour for a meal; mealtime. Full definition →

Middle English meeletide

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Middle English · inherited frommeeletide
English todaymealtide

From Middle English meeletide, equivalent to meal + -tide (“time, period, hour”). Compare Dutch maaltijd, German Mahlzeit, Icelandic máltíð.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.