Zeit
German
editEtymology
editFrom Middle High German zīt, from Old High German zīt, from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis (“time, period”), from *deh₂y- (“divide”).
Cognate with Low German Tiet, Tied, Dutch tijd, English tide, Danish tid, Norwegian tid, Swedish tid. Also cognate, more distantly, with English time.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editZeit 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):
- In der mittelniedersächsischen Zeit war das Sassische [= Niedersächsische (Nds.)] auch hier die Schriftsprache. Doch war sie nicht ganz so stark vom Mittelniedersächsischen Lübischer Prägung beeinflußt wie in Norddeutschland.
- In the Middle Low Saxon time/period, Low Saxon was the written language here too. However, it was not quite as strongly influenced by the Middle Low Saxon of Lübian character as it was in Northern Germany.
- 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
editDeclension of Zeit [feminine]
Hypernyms
editHyponyms
editHyponyms of Zeit
- Abendmahlzeit (“supper, evening meal”)
- Abendzeit (“eventide”)
- Abfahrtszeit
- Abflugzeit
- Adventszeit (“Advent Season”)
- Altsteinzeit (“Paleolithic Age, Old Stone Age”)
- Amtszeit
- Anfangszeit (“early days; start time, beginning time, scheduled start”)
- Anlaufzeit (“start-up time [tech.]; period of adjustment [for a person]”)
- Antwortzeit (“response time”) (tech.)
- Arbeitszeit
- Aufwärmzeit (“warm-up time”) (sport)
- Ausbildungszeit (“training time”)
- Ausdehnungszeit (“expanse of time, timespan”) (rare)
- Auszeit
- Auszeit
- Backzeit (“baking time”)
- Barockzeit (“baroque period”)
- Bauzeit
- Bearbeitungszeit (“turnaround time”) (delivery)
- Bedenkzeit
- Berichtszeit (“reporting period”) (uncommon)
- Besatzungszeit (“time of occupation”) (military)
- Besuchszeit (“visiting hour”)
- Betriebszeit (“operating time, uptime”) (factory, machine)
- Bewährungszeit (“time of parole, probation period”) (penology)
- Blütezeit
- Brennzeit (“burning time”)
- Bronzezeit
- Brotzeit (“snack break”)
- Brunstzeit (“rutting time”) (zoology)
- Brutzeit (“breeding time, hatching time”) (ornithology)
- Dienstzeit (“duty period, term of military service”)
- Durchlaufzeit (“lead time; processing time”) (publishing)
- Echtzeit
- Eigenzeit (“proper time”) (relativity in physics)
- Einsatzzeit (“period of use”) (uncommon)
- Einschwingzeit (“transient time, settling time”) (engineering)
- Eisenzeit
- Eiszeit
- Elternzeit (“parental leave”) (work)
- Endzeit
- Entstehungszeit
- Entwicklungszeit (“development time, time of development”)
- Entwurfszeit (“design time”)
- Erntezeit (“harvest time, harvest season”)
- Essenzeit (“mealtime”)
- Expansionszeit (“expansion time”) (uncommon)
- Explosionszeit (“burst time”) (computing)
- Fahrzeit (“journey time, travelling time”)
- Fastenzeit
- Ferienzeit (“holiday period, holiday season”)
- Flugzeit (“flight time”)
- Folgezeit
- Freizeit
- Friedenszeit
- Frühlingszeit (“spring time”)
- Frühzeit
- Garzeit (“cooking time”) (in cooking that doesn't involve boiling)
- Gesamtlaufzeit (“total run-time”)
- Glanzzeit (“heyday”)
- Gleitzeit
- Gründerzeit (“founders period: period of history in Germany and Austria from 1840s to 1873”)
- Haftzeit (“period of imprisonment”) (uncommon)
- Halbwertszeit
- Halbzeit
- Hallstattzeit (“Hallstatt period”)
- Hauptsendezeit (“prime time, prime-time”) (TV)
- Hauptzeit (“main time: limited period during a business day within which higher fees for the use of services are required”)
- Herbstzeit (“fall time, autumn time”)
- Inflationszeit (“period of inflation”)
- Inkubationszeit (“incubation period/time”) (pathology)
- Ionisationszeit, Ionisierungszeit (“ionization time”) (chemistry)
- Jagdzeit (“hunting season, shooting season”)
- Jahreszeit
- Jetztzeit
- Jugendzeit (“adolescence”) (archaic)
- Kaiserzeit
- Karenzzeit (“cooling-off period [consumership]; waiting period [insurance, vesting]; grace period [parental leave from work]”)
- Keimzeit (“germination period”) (botany)
- Kinderzeit
- Kochzeit (“cooking time”)
- Kolonialzeit (“colonial period, colonial era, colonial age, colonial times”)
- Kreidezeit
- Kriegszeit
- Ladezeit (“load time; charge time, charging time”) (computing, technology)
- Latènezeit (“La Tène period”) (history)
- Latenzzeit
- Laufzeit
- Lebenszeit
- Lehrzeit (“apprenticeship”)
- Leidenszeit (“period of suffering, time of suffering, long drawn-out misery”)
- Lernzeit (“study time”)
- Lieferzeit (“delivery time”)
- Liegezeit (“period of lay days, time spent at harbor”)
- Lüftungszeit (“time of ventilation”)
- Mahlzeit
- Militärzeit (“military service period”)
- Mittagszeit
- Nachtzeit
- Nazizeit (“Nazi era”)
- Nebenzeit (“secondary tense”) (linguistics)
- Neuzeit
- Notzeit
- Notzeit
- Öffnungszeit
- Ortszeit (“local time”)
- Osterzeit (“Eastertide, the Easter season”)
- Paarungszeit
- Parkplatzsuchzeit (“time it takes to find a parking space”)
- Pfingstzeit (“time of Pentecost, the week of Pentecost”)
- Pionierzeit (“pioneering days, early time”)
- Probezeit (“probationary period, trial period”) (workplace)
- Reaktionszeit
- Rechenzeit (“computation time, computing time”)
- Redezeit (“speaking time: time allotted for a speaker”)
- Regelarbeitszeit (“standard work time”)
- Regenzeit
- Regierungszeit (“ruling time: the time a ruler or leader has been in a position of power”)
- Reifezeit (“maturation period, ripening period”)
- Reisezeit (“travel season, holiday/vacation/tourist season”)
- Rennzeit (“race time, racing time”)
- Residenzzeit (“residence time”) (engineering)
- Restlaufzeit (“residual maturity, remaining maturity, remaining term”) (finance)
- Römerzeit
- Ruhezeit (“rest period”)
- Rüstzeit (“setup time”) (technology)
- Schlafenszeit
- Schonzeit
- Schulzeit
- Schulzeit
- Schwärmzeit (“swarming time”) (beekeeping)
- Sendezeit (“airtime, broadcasting time”)
- Siegerzeit (“winning time”)
- Sommerzeit
- Spätzeit (“late period; end of a time period”) (history)
- Sperrzeit (“lock time: closing time of a restaurant or bar; waiting period for unemployment benefits”)
- Spielzeit
- Sprechstundenzeit (“Office Hours period”) (education)
- Sprechzeit
- Steinzeit
- Stoßzeit
- Studienzeit (“student days, college days, school days; years spent studying”)
- Suchzeit (“seek time, search time”) (computing)
- Tageszeit
- Taktzeit (“cycle time”) (production assembly, manufacturing)
- Tatzeit (“crime time, time of a crime”)
- Teilzeit
- Tischzeit (“midday mealtime”)
- Tornadozeit (“tornado season”)
- Tragzeit (“gestation period”) (zoology)
- Trockenzeit
- Übergangszeit (“transitional period, transition period, interim period”)
- Uhrzeit
- Unterrichtszeit (“teaching period, teaching time”)
- Unzeit
- Urlaubszeit (“vacation time; vacation season”)
- Urnenfelderzeit (“Urnfield culture period”) (history)
- Urzeit
- Verkehrszeit (“traffic time, traffic period”)
- Völkerwanderungszeit (“Migration Period”) (history)
- Vollzeit
- Vorbereitungszeit (“preparation time”)
- Vorzeit
- Wartezeit
- Weihnachtszeit
- Wendezeit (“Turnaround Period: the period surrounding the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of Communism in Eastern Europe”) (history)
- Werbezeit (“ad time, advertising time”)
- Winterzeit
- Wirkzeit (“effect time: how long it takes for something to affect a person like a drug or medication”)
- Zwischenzeit
- Zykluszeit (“cycle time”) (manufacturing, technology)
Derived terms
editDerived adjectives and adverbs from Zeit
Derived nouns from Zeit
- Arbeitszeitskonto (“working time account; flextime account”)
- Lebenszeit f
- Saure-Gurken-Zeit
- Zeitabstand m
- Zeitbombe f
- Zeitenfolge f
- Zeitenwende f
- Zeiterfassung f
- Zeitgeist m
- Zeitkapsel f
- Zeitlupe f
- Zeitmaschine
- Zeitreise f
- Zeitsoldat m
- Zeitumstellung f
- Zeitzeuge m
Proper noun
editZeit m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Zeits or (with an article) Zeit, feminine genitive Zeit, plural Zeits)
- a surname
Further reading
edit- “Zeit” in Duden online
- “Zeit” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Zeit”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
Pennsylvania German
editEtymology
editFrom Middle High German zīt, from Old High German zīt, from Proto-Germanic *tīdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₂itis (“time, period”), from *deh₂y- (“divide”).
Compare German Zeit, Dutch tijd, English tide.
Noun
editZeit f (plural Zeide)
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