Etymology

wartime

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Today it means: A period during which a war is in progress in a particular place. Full definition →

English time ← Middle English tyme ← Old English tīma
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*wers-
  2. Proto-Germanic*werzaną
  3. Proto-West Germanic*werʀan
  4. Frankish*werʀ
  5. Early Medieval Latinwerra
  6. Old Northern Frenchguerre
  7. Old Englishwerre
  8. Middle Englishwerre
  9. Englishwar
  10. Proto-Indo-European*deh₂-
  11. Proto-Indo-European*deh₂y-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*dih₂-mon-
  13. Proto-Germanic*tīmô
  14. Proto-West Germanic*tīmō
  15. Old Englishtīma
  16. Middle Englishtyme
  17. Englishtime
  18. English todaywartime

From war + time.

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