English
leavetime
From leave (“permission to be absent”) + time.
Formed from leave ‘permission to be absent’ + time
Proto-Indo-European *leyp- ‘to stick’
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Proto-Germanic *laibijaną ‘to let stay’
Proto-West Germanic *laibijan ‘to leave behind’
Old English lǣfan ‘to leave’
Middle English leven ‘to leave’
English leave
Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- ‘to divide’
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Proto-Germanic *tīmô ‘division, period; time’
Proto-West Germanic *tīmō
Old English tīma ‘time, period’
Middle English tyme
English time
Today it means
noun Time permitted to be absent from work.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / leavetime