Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/3
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events. · The feeling of the passage of events and their relative duration, as experienced by an individual. · A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension. · Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *deh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-y(eti) Proto-Indo-European *-y(éti) Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ Proto-Indo-European *dih₂-mon- Proto-Germanic *tīmô Proto-West Germanic *tīmō Old English tīma Middle English tyme English time 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”).
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- Inherited-form mentiontymeenm
- Inherited-form mentiontīmaang · time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity
- Inherited-form mention*tīmōgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*tīmôgem-pro
- Derivation mention*déh₂imōine-pro
- Cognate mentiontymsco
- Cognate mentionZimengsw
- Cognate mentiontimeda
- Cognate mentiontaimeovd
- Cognate mentiontímifo
- Cognate mentiontímiis
- Cognate mentiontimeno
- Cognate mentiontimmasv
This page abbreviates 23 auxiliary source items. The etymology narrative is not shortened. Omission counts are available in the audit fields below; consult the original for complete auxiliary material.
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"The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.",
"The feeling of the passage of events and their relative duration, as experienced by an individual.",
"A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.",
"Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy."
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