English

evetide

A variant of eventide; equivalent to eve + tide.

A compound of eve + tide

Proto-West Germanic *āban

Old English ǣfen ‘evening’

English eve

Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- ‘to share, divide’

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Proto-Germanic *tīdiz ‘time’

Proto-West Germanic *tīdi ‘time’

Old English tīd ‘time in general’

Middle English tyde ‘a time (period), season’

English tide

Today it means

noun evening

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.