Word of the Day:
tiding
What It Means
News; new information.
Tiding in Context
“[…] Adoniiah sayde vnto him, Come in, for thou art a valiant man, and bringest good tidings.”
Did You Know?
From a merger of Middle English tiding, tidinge, from Late Old English tīdung, with Middle English tidinde, tidende, from or influenced by Old Norse tíðindi (“news, tidings”), both connected to Old English tīdan (“to befall; happen”). Though it is sometimes assumed that the form in -ind/-end is original and later assimilated to -ing, the cognates Dutch tijding and German Zeitung point to inheritance from Proto-West Germanic *tīdungō. By surface analysis, tide (“time”) + -ing.
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