tima – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of tima

Noun: tima
Gender:

Nominative

Singulartīma
Pluraltīman

Genitive

Singulartīman
Pluraltīmena

Dative

Singulartīman
Pluraltīmum

Accusative

Singulartīman
Pluraltīman

Sample Sentences

  • On hwelcne tīman sċealt þū tō morgne onwæcnan? (What time do you have to wake up tomorrow?)
  • c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English
  • Hit is tīma tō erienne. (It's time to plough.)
  • c. 897, Alfred the Great, translation of Pope Gregory's Pastoral Care
  • Nū ūs is tīma þæt wē onwæcnen of slǣpe. (Now it's time for us to wake up from our sleep.)
  • c. 992, Ælfric, "The Nativity of the Innocents"
  • Þā cleopode hē þā tungolwītegan on sundorsprǣċe and ġeornlīċe hīe befrugnon on hwelcne tīman hīe ǣrest þone steorran ġesāwen. (He summoned the astrologers to private conversation and anxiously asked them at what time they first saw the star.)
  • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
  • Ġelēaffulle lǣwede menn, þe on rihtum sinsċipe lybbað, āġifað þrītigḟealdne wǣstm gōdra weorca, ġif hī heora æw̄e æfter bōclīcum ġesetnyssum healdað, þæt is, þæt hī for bearnes ġestrēone, on alyfedum tīman, hǣmed begān, and bearneacniġende wīf and mōnaðsēoc forbūgan; and ðonne hēo leng tȳman ne mæġ,̇ ġeswican hī hǣmedes. (Faithful lay people, who live in righteous marriage, yield thirtyfold fruit of good works, if their marriage follows the biblical decrees; that is, that they have intercourse for the procreation of children at permitted times, and abstain from intercourse with pregnant or menstruating women, and that at the time they can no longer procreate, they cease intercourse.)

Nouns inflected like tima

tima,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *tīmō, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô. Cognate with Old High German *zīmo, Old Norse tími. Related to Old English tīd. See: Old Norse Nouns 'tími'.

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