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Tidings

2 stages from Old Norse to English.

Today it means news or information about recent events
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Stage 1 of 2
tithindi
Old Norse · medieval
"events, news"
events, happenings, news of what has occurred
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Stage 2 of 2
tidings
English · 1200s
"news or information about events"
settled as the English word for news or information about events
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