nimen
See also: nǐmen
Middle English
Alternative forms
- nymen
Etymology
From Old English niman, from Proto-Germanic *nemaną, probably from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“take”).
Verb
nimen (third-person singular simple present nimeth, present participle nimende, nimynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative nom, past participle nomen)
- to take
- 1381, Pegge Cook. Recipes, page 114, quoted in 1962, Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242, in the entry "dorrẹ̄, dōrī adj. & n. […] cook":
- For to make Soupys dorry. Nym onyons […] Nym wyn […] toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande mylk.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1381, Pegge Cook. Recipes, page 114, quoted in 1962, Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242, in the entry "dorrẹ̄, dōrī adj. & n. […] cook":
Conjugation
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Yapese
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