different between fiding vs tiding

English

Alternative forms

• tidinde (obsolete)
• tidind (dialectal)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?d??/

Noun

tiding (plural tidings)

1. (archaic or literary, usually in the plural) news; new information
   • Glad tidings we bring / To you and your kin. — A traditional Christmas carol.
   • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:

     For men be now tratlers and tellers of tales;
     What tidings at Totnam, what newis in Wales,
     What ?hippis are ?ailing to Scalis Malis?
     And all is not worth a couple of nut ?halis.

   • 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

Anagrams

• diting, tingid