Zeit

== German == === Alternative forms === Zeid (obsolete) === Etymology === Inherited from Middle High German zīt, from Old High German zīt, from Proto-West Germanic *tīdi, from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis, from *deh₂y- + *-tis. Cognate with Low German Tiet, Tied, Dutch tijd, English tide, Danish tid, Norwegian tid, Swedish tid. Also cognate, more distantly, with English time. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [t͡saɪ̯t] Rhymes: -aɪ̯t Homophone: zeit Hyphenation: Zeit === Noun === Zeit f (genitive Zeit, plural Zeiten) time (as a concept) time of day (clipping of Uhrzeit) period, era (time in the past) 1978 , Heinz Kloss, Die Entwicklung neuer germanischer Kultursprachen seit 1800 (Sprache der Gegenwart 37), 2nd ed., p. 192 (cp. p. 181): stint (e.g. in the army) (grammar) tense ==== Declension ==== ==== Hypernyms ==== Dimension ==== Hyponyms ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Proper noun === Zeit m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Zeits or (with an article) Zeit, feminine genitive Zeit, plural Zeits) a surname === Further reading === “Zeit” in Duden online “Zeit”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Zeit”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891