nim
English
Etymology
From Middle English nimen, from Old English niman (“to take”), from Proto-Germanic *nemaną (“to take”), from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to give or take one's due”). Cognate with West Frisian nimme (“to take”), Dutch nemen (“to take”), Low German nehmen (“to take”), German nehmen (“to take”), Danish nemme (“to learn, grasp”). Related to numb and nimble.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪm
Verb
nim (third-person singular simple present nims, present participle nimming, simple past and past participle nimmed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To take or seize.
- 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.
- 1547 (original; printed 1870), Andrew Boorde, The First Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge, page 122:
- Ich cham a Cornysche man, al[e] che can brew; [...] Nym me a quart of ale, that iche may it of sup.
- 1566–1573 (original; printed 1873), John Partridge, The Hystorie of the Moste Noble Knight Plasidas, and Other Rare Pieces, page 106:
- Then Alfyne to the court Of Syleuma doth come, / And Pandauola in her armes / Her Alfyne hath up num / And kisseth him full ofte […]
- 2017, Thomas Heywood, A Woman Killed With Kindness, Bloomsbury Publishing (→ISBN), page 155:
- Gryndall carefully sets out the difference between seizing or nimming a bird (an outcome that would constitute a partly successful flight) and taking the bird outright: 'And if your Hawke noume [nim, seize] a foule, and the foule breake from her, she hath discomfited many feathers of the foule, and is broken away: but in kindly speech you shall say, your hawke hath noumed or seased a foule, and not taken it'.
- 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":
- (obsolete, slang, transitive) To filch, steal.
- 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 1
- They'll question Mars, and, by his look, \ Detect who 'twas that nimm'd a cloak;
- 1785, Hutton, Bran New Wark, I. 305, quoted in 1903, Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary: M-Q, page 273:
- Nimming and niftering whativver he can try his fists on.
- 1821, Apuleius, The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius, of Medaura, page 131:
- But while he fell in some brave exploit, you, I suppose, being provident rogues and thieves of discretion, were on the sure lay, pilfering little thefts among the mob, fearfully nimming a cloak or rifling some old woman's bulk of a stock to set up a piece-broker's shop.
- 1824 (edition; original 1790), Nairne, Tales, 37, quoted in 1903, Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary: M-Q, page 273:
- They nim a pig, a duck, or fowl.
- 1854, Oliver Oldham, Oldham's Amusing and Instructive Reader: A Course of Reading, Original and Selected, in Prose and Poetry, Wherein Wit, Humor, and Mirth are Made the Means of Awakening Interest, and Imparting Instructon : for the Use of Schools and Academies, page 110:
- Shall we go nim a horse, Tom,—what dost think? [...] Nim? yes, yes, yes, let's nim with all my heart; I see no harm in nimming, for my part; [...] Were it my lord mayor's hourse—I'd nim it first. [...A horse] they stole, or, as they called it, nimmed, / Just as the twilight all the landscape dimmed. [...] What is most likely, is that both these elves / Were, in like manner, halter-nimmed themselves.
- 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 1
- (intransitive, UK dialectal) To walk with short, quick strides; trip along.
- 1856, Thompson, Hist. Boston, page 716, quoted in 1903, Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary: M-Q, page 273:
- The old lady does nim along.
- 1949, Wilfrid J. Halliday, Arthur Stanley Umpleby, The White Rose Garland of Yorkshire Dialect Verse and Local and Folk-lore Rhymes, quoting Irene Sutcliffe, page 111:
- Ah had set myself doon where the aums meet aboon, / When Jinny jamp oop, and ganned nimming alang.
- 1856, Thompson, Hist. Boston, page 716, quoted in 1903, Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary: M-Q, page 273:
Related terms
Noun
nim (uncountable)
Derived terms
Anagrams
Gothic
Romanization
nim
- Romanization of 𐌽𐌹𐌼
Hausa
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic نِيم (nīm), from Hindi नीम (nīm).
Noun
nîm m
- neem tree
Livonian
Alternative forms
- ni'm (Courland)
Etymology
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Noun
nim
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
Pronoun
nim (only after a preposition)
- instrumental of wón
- instrumental of wóno
- dative of wóni
Related terms
- (dative of wóni): jim
Old Irish
Pronunciation
Noun
nim
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
nim also nnim after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
nim pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Polish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Pronoun
nim
See also
Etymology 2
Conjunction
nim
Further reading
Portuguese
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: nim
Etymology 1
From Hindi नीम (nīm), from Sanskrit निम्ब (nimba).
Noun
nim m (plural nins)
- neem (Azadirachta indica, an evergreen tree of India)
Etymology 2
Blend of não (“no”) + sim (“yes”). Compare German Jein.
Adverb
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Noun
nim m (plural nins)
Swedish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Swedish næmber (“apt, docile”), from Old Norse næmr, from Proto-Germanic *nāmjaz, derived from Proto-Germanic *nemaną (“to take”). Compare Danish Danish nem (“easy”) and Icelandic næmur (“docile, sensitive”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
nim (comparative nimmare, superlative nimmast)
- (Scania) convenient, handy, practical, easy
- 2005, “Kamp för att få fram hemtjänstens mat [Struggle to get home care food delivered]”, in Sydsvenskan[1]:
- – Den är ganska nim att köra. Man sitter högt och sådär.
- – It’s quite easy to drive. You sit high up and such.
- 2008, Anders Fagerström, “Vi grillar engångsgrillar [We use disposable grills]”, in Sydsvenskan[2]:
- Men rätt hanterad är engångsgrillen utan tvekan en nim och trevlig sak på utflykten […]
- But handled properly, the disposable grill is without a doubt a convenient and nice thing to bring to an excursion […]
- 2010, “Hur var det att ta ut hojen igen? [What was it like to bring out your motorbike again?]”, in Sydsvenskan[3]:
- Och så är det nimmt att komma fram vid vägarbeten och inne i stan när det är tjockt. Sen är det nästan alltid lätt att hitta en parkering också.
- And it’s also easy to get past the roadworks and get around inside the city when it’s crowded. It’s almost always easy to find parking too.
- 2017, “’Jag behövde förtroende och kärlek - och det fick jag direkt’ [’I needed trust and love - and I got it right away’]”, in Sydsvenskan[4]:
- Sen är det klart att det är nimt att ha Köpenhamn så nära, det är lätt att åka över och träffa kompisar och familj, säger han.
- Then of course it’s convenient that Copenhagen is so close, it’s easy to cross over and meet friends and family, he says.
Declension
Inflection of nim | |||
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Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | nim | nimmare | nimmast |
Neuter singular | nimt | nimmare | nimmast |
Plural | nimma | nimmare | nimmast |
Masculine plural3 | nimme | nimmare | nimmast |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | nimme | nimmare | nimmaste |
All | nimma | nimmare | nimmaste |
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic |
Derived terms
References
- ”nim” in Lundbladh, Carl-Erik (2014) Skånska dialektord, 2nd edition, Uppsala: Institutet för språk och folkminnen
- nim in Elias Wessén, Våra ord : deras uttal och ursprung (1979)
- ”næma” in de Vries, Jan (2000) Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 2nd revised edition, Leiden: Brill, page 413
- ”nämber” in Söderwall, K.F. (1884-1918) Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket[5], volume I-III, Digitized in ”Fornsvensk lexikalisk databas”
Anagrams
Volapük
Etymology
From English animal (which ultimately derives from Latin animal)
Pronunciation
Noun
nim (nominative plural nims)
Declension
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- balyelanim
- dämabanim
- fekunanim
- folyelanim
- fösilanim
- genanim
- hinim
- kilyelanim
- krustanim ( = krustaf)
- lodotanim
- lodotanimaluveg
- lodotanimidugan
- lulyelanim
- lunim
- mälyelanim
- melanim
- melanimem
- melanimik
- minimil
- minimilem
- nefekunanim
- nimablud
- nimafom
- nimafomik
- nimafösil
- nimafösilil
- nimakap
- nimakapik
- nimalad
- nimalineg
- nimalueg
- nimalufut
- nimasüm
- nimasümik
- nimav
- nimavik
- nimälamen
- nimälamenik
- nimem
- nimik
- nimil
- nimilem
- nimilik
- niminulüdabog
- niminulüdamabetad
- niminulüdamamiliak
- niminulüdamapisäl
- niminulüdamaplan
- niminulüdaviän
- niminulüdot
- nimül
- nimülam
- nimülem
- nimülamaliev
- nimülamüp
- nimülik
- nimülön
- probodanim ( = probodaf)
- probodanimem
- probodanimik
- pronimbetad
- pronimmeil
- pronimmiliak
- pronimpisäl
- pronimpisäls
- pronimplan
- pronimplanem
- ravalenim
- ravalenimik
- ravanim
- ravanimül
- skömanimil
- süganim
- süganimav
- süganimavan
- süganimik
- telyelanim
- trofodanim
- virebanim
See also
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ɪm
- English lemmas
- English verbs
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- English transitive verbs
- English slang
- English intransitive verbs
- British English
- English dialectal terms
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English irregular verbs
- English three-letter words
- Gothic non-lemma forms
- Gothic romanizations
- Hausa terms borrowed from Arabic
- Hausa terms derived from Arabic
- Hausa terms derived from Hindi
- Hausa lemmas
- Hausa nouns
- Hausa masculine nouns
- ha:Trees
- Livonian lemmas
- Livonian nouns
- Lower Sorbian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Lower Sorbian non-lemma forms
- Lower Sorbian pronoun forms
- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish non-lemma forms
- Old Irish noun forms
- Polish 1-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish non-lemma forms
- Polish pronoun forms
- Polish lemmas
- Polish conjunctions
- Polish terms with multiple etymologies
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- Portuguese terms borrowed from Hindi
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- Portuguese terms derived from Sanskrit
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese blends
- Portuguese humorous terms
- Portuguese neologisms
- Portuguese terms with multiple etymologies
- Swedish terms inherited from Old Swedish
- Swedish terms derived from Old Swedish
- Swedish terms inherited from Old Norse
- Swedish terms derived from Old Norse
- Swedish terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Swedish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Swedish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Swedish/ɪm
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish adjectives
- Swedish terms with quotations
- Volapük terms derived from English
- Volapük terms derived from Latin
- Volapük terms with IPA pronunciation
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- vo:Animals