yeartide

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"[…] And promised whatever the yeartides would bring To this wish of his friend he would fervently cling."
"And soft the yeartides creep: O sweet, O lasting sleep!"
"Or phylacteries on skulls unyielding, While our river of days flows dark With a yeartide of days, a yeartide of nights Unhallowed, unhallowed?"
"Peter & 2-Js & I joined in a flower bunch, besides which I also sent her a 15 bob sheaf on my own, with gum-leafage — the sole homish stuff havable here at this yeartide — there among."
"A-dream, we rock at home. So, lasting-sweet is sleep: With sails forever furled. Forgot is all the world, And soft the yeartides creep: O sweet, O lasting sleep!"
"There will be a tourney in three days, as always at Yeartide. You could enter those events at which you may excel."

From year + -tide (“time, occasion”). Compare West Frisian jiertiid (“season”), Dutch jaartijd, jaargetijde (“season”), German Jahreszeit (“season”), Swedish årstid (“season”), Icelandic árstíð (“season”), Yiddish יאָרצײַט (yortsayt). Piecewise doublet of yahrzeit.

yeartides (plural)

yeartime