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1. Proto-Indo-European*deh₂-
2. Proto-Indo-European*deh₂y-
3. Proto-Indo-European*dih₂-mon-
4. Proto-Germanic*tīmô
5. Proto-West Germanic*tīmō
6. Old Englishtīma
7. Middle Englishtyme
8. English todaytime

From Middle English tyme, time, from Old English tīma (“time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity”), from Proto-West Germanic *tīmō, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂imō, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂-i- (“to divide”), from the root *deh₂-. Related to tide. Not related to Latin tempus. Distant doublet of demon /daemon and daimon (or piecewise doublet, if the Greek and Germanic words were suffixed independently). Cognates * Scots tym, tyme (“time”) * Alemannic German Zimen, Zīmmän (“time, time of the year, opportune time, opportunity”) * Danish time (“hour, lesson”) * Elfdalian taime (“hour”) * Faroese tími (“hour, lesson, time”) * Icelandic tími (“time, season”) * Norwegian time (“lesson, hour”) * Swedish timma, timme (“hour”).

Words from the same roots