An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Zeitung

by Friedrich Kluge

Zeitung, feminine, ‘newspaper, gazette,’ from late Middle High German zîtunge, ‘information, news’; compare Dutch tijding, English tidings, Old Icelandic tiðende, ‘tidings.’ The evolution of the meaning from the stem of Zeit is not quite clear; compare, however, English to betide.