tima
See also: timá, tíma, and tîma
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Pronunciation
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Adjective
tima (accusative singular timan, plural timaj, accusative plural timajn)
- fearful
Jamamadí
Adjective
tima
- (Banawá) upriver
References
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
Middle English
Noun
tima
- (Early ME) Alternative form of tyme (“time”)
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *tīmô. Cognate with Old High German *zīmo, Old Norse tími. Related to Old English tīd.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtiː.mɑ/
Noun
tīma m
- a time
- 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.
Declension
Declension of tima (weak)
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | tīma | tīman |
accusative | tīman | tīman |
genitive | tīman | tīmena |
dative | tīman | tīmum |
Synonyms
- tīd
Derived terms
- underntīma
- nōntīma
- ǣfentīma
- tīmlīċe
Descendants
- Middle English: tyme, teme, teyme, tim, time, tym; tima, timæ, tyma
- English: time (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: time, teime, tim
- Yola: deemes (plural)
Spanish
Verb
tima
- inflection of timar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Thao
Pronoun
tima
- (interrogative) who