Zäit

Etymology
From, northern variant of , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

The plural was adapted to the singular; the inherited form would have been. The prevocalic stem remains in, with the doublet  formed after the underlying noun. The third stem in  is borrowed from German (displacing obsolete ).

Noun

 * 1) time
 * 2) epoch, era