tiding

English

Alternative forms
  • tidinde (obsolete)
  • tidind (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English tiding, tidinge (also tidinde, tidende, etc.), from Late Old English tīdung, from tīdan (“to befall; happen”), probably with assimilation to -ing.[1] Either from or influenced by Old Norse tíðindi[2] ( > Danish/Norwegian tidende). Cognate with Dutch tijding, German Zeitung.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtaɪdɪŋ/

Noun

tiding (plural tidings)

  1. (usually in the plural) news; new information
    • Glad tidings we bring To you and your kin. — A traditional Christmas carol.
    • 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, Book 2, Ch. 2, St. Edmundsbury
      But yet it is pity we had lost tidings of our souls: actually we shall have to go in quest of them again, or worse in all ways will befall!

Translations

Verb

tiding

  1. present participle of tide

References
  1. T.F. Hoad, Concise Dictionary of English Etymology, →ISBN; headword tidings
  2. tidings in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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