Tide Definition
Time, added to a festival name to indicate the period around that festival.
- to help along temporarily, as through a period of difficulty
- to reverse a condition
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Origin of Tide
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From Middle English tide, from Old English tÄ«d (“time, period, season, while; hour; feast-day, festal-tide; canonical hour or service"), from Proto-Germanic *tÄ«diz (“time, period"), from Proto-Indo-European *dÄ«ti- (“time, period"), from Proto-Indo-European *dÄ«- (“time"). Cognate with Scots tide, tyde (“moment, time, occasion, period, tide"), North Frisian tid (“time"), West Frisian tiid (“time, while"), Dutch tijd (“time"), Low German Tied (“time"), Tiet, Low German Tide (“tide of the sea"), German Zeit (“time"), Danish tid (“time"), Swedish tid (“time"), Icelandic tíð (“time"), Albanian ditë (“day"), Old Armenian Õ¿Õ« (ti, “age"), Kurdish dem (“time"). Related to time.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Old English tīd division of time dā- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Middle English tiden from Old English tīdan dā- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Middle English tiden, tide, from Old English tÄ«dan (“to happen").
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Old English tid, from Old High German zit
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