yeartide

noun

1. A specific time of year; season.

   […] And promised whatever the yeartides would bring To this wish of his friend he would fervently cling.

2. A specific time each year; anniversary.

   rare

   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!

Where it comes from

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.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry yeartide (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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