seedtime

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The time to sow seeds. countable,uncountable
    — Seed time and Harvest, Heat and hoary Frost Shall hold thir course
  2. A time for new development. countable,figuratively,uncountable

词形变化

seedtimes plural seed-time alternative

词源

From Middle English seed tyme, from Old English sǣdtīma (“time for sowing, season”), from Proto-West Germanic *sādatīmō, from Proto-Germanic *sēdatīmô (“seedtime”), equivalent to seed + time. Cognate with Icelandic sáðtími (“sowing time, seedtime”).
Compare also West Frisian siedtiid (“seedtime”), Dutch zaaitijd (“sowing time, seedtime”), German Saatzeit (“season for sowing seed”), Swedish såddtid (“sowing time, seedtime”), Faroese sáðtíð (“sowing time”), Old Norse sáðtíð (“April”, literally “seed time”).
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