Etymology

seedtime

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Today it means: The time to sow seeds. Full definition →

Middle English seed tyme ← Old English sǣdtīma ← Proto-West Germanic *sādatīmō
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  1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*sēdatīmô“seedtime”
  2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*sādatīmō
  3. Old English · inherited fromsǣdtīma“time for sowing, season”
  4. Middle English · inherited fromseed tyme
  5. English todayseedtime

From Middle English seed tyme, from Old English sǣdtīma (“time for sowing, season”), from Proto-West Germanic *sādatīmō, from Proto-Germanic *sēdatīmô (“seedtime”), equivalent to seed + time. Cognate with Icelandic sáðtími (“sowing time, seedtime”). Compare also West Frisian siedtiid (“seedtime”), Dutch zaaitijd (“sowing time, seedtime”), German Saatzeit (“season for sowing seed”), Swedish såddtid (“sowing time, seedtime”), Faroese sáðtíð (“sowing time”), Old Norse sáðtíð (“April”, literally “seed time”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.