English
traintime
train + time
Latin trahō ‘to pull, to draw’
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Vulgar Latin *traginō
Old French trainer ‘to pull out, to draw’
Old French train ‘a delay, a drawing out’
Middle English trayne ‘train’
English train
Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- ‘to divide’
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Proto-Germanic *tīmô ‘division, period; time’
Proto-West Germanic *tīmō
Old English tīma ‘time, period’
Middle English tyme
English time
Today it means
noun The time when a railway train is scheduled to depart.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “traintime”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / traintime