Etymology

tide

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Today it means: The daily fluctuation in the level of the sea caused by the gravitational influence of the moon and the sun. Full definition →

Middle English tide ← Old English tīd ← Proto-West Germanic *tīdi
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tide · noun, verb1

  1. Proto-Indo-European*deh₂-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*deh₂y-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*déh₂itis
  4. Proto-Indo-European*dih₂tís
  5. Proto-Germanic*tīdiz
  6. Proto-West Germanic*tīdi
  7. Old Englishtīd
  8. Middle Englishtide
  9. English todaytide

Inherited from Middle English tide, from Old English tīd, from Proto-West Germanic *tīdi, from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *dih₂tís, from *déh₂itis, from *deh₂y- + *-tis. Related to time. Cognate with Dutch tijd (“time”), German Zeit (“time”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish tid (“time”), Faroese and Icelandic tíð (“time”).

tide · verb2

  1. Old English · derived fromtīdan“to happen”
  2. Middle English · derived fromtiden
  3. English todaytide

From Middle English tiden, tide, from Old English tīdan (“to happen”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishtīdan all →

betide

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