different between till vs tilth

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?l, IPA^(key): /t?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English til, from Northern Old English til, from or akin to Old Norse til (“to, till”); both from Proto-Germanic *til (“to, toward”), from Proto-Germanic *til? (“planned point in time”). Not a shortening of until; rather, until comes from till with the prefix un- (“against; toward; up to”) also found in unto. Cognate with Old Frisian til (“to, till”), Danish til (“to”), Swedish till (“to, till”), Icelandic til (“to, till”). Also related to Old English til (“good”), German Ziel (“goal”), Gothic ???????????? (til, “something fitting or suitable”).

Preposition

till

1. Until; to, up to; as late as (a given time).
   • 1854, Prof. John Wilson, The Genius and Character of Burns, p.194 (Google preview):

     Similar sentiments will recur to everyone familiar with his writings all through them till the very end.
2. (obsolete) To, up to (physically).
3. (dialectal) To make it possible that.
   • 1953?, Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

     VLADIMIR: Together again at last! We'll have to celebrate this. But how? (He reflects.) Get up till I embrace you.

Usage notes

"till" in this context is usually considered colloquial in modern English (except for in some regional variants such as Indian English) and in most cases can be replaced by "until" or "to".

Synonyms

• (until): til (nonstandard), 'til (nonstandard), until

Translations

Conjunction

till

1. Until, until the time that.

   Maybe you can, maybe you can't: you won't know till you try.

   • 1846, Edward Lear, The Book of Nonsense:

     She twirled round and round, / Till she sunk underground, […]

   • 1912, anonymous, Punky Dunk and the Mouse, P.F. Volland & Co.:

     And the Mouse sat and laughed till he cried.

Synonyms

• (until): til (nonstandard), 'til (poetic), until; see also Thesaurus:until

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English tylle (“till”), possibly from Middle English tillen (“to draw”) from Old English *tyllan (“to draw, attract”) (as in betyllan (“to lure, decoy”) and fortyllan (“to draw away”); related to *tollian > Middle English tollen). Cognate with Albanian ndjell (“I lure, attract”).

Alternatively, Middle English tylle is from Anglo-Norman tylle (“compartment”), from Old French tille (“compartment, shelter on a ship”), from Old Norse þilja (“plank”).

Noun

till (plural tills)

1. A cash register.
2. A removable box within a cash register containing the money.

   Pull all the tills and lock them in the safe.

3. The contents of a cash register, for example at the beginning or end of the day or of a cashier's shift.

   My count of my till was 30 dollars short.

4. (obsolete) A tray or drawer in a chest.

Derived terms

• have one's hand in the till

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English tilyen, from Old English tilian.

Verb

till (third-person singular simple present tills, present participle tilling, simple past and past participle tilled)

1. (transitive) To develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc.).
2. (transitive) To work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops.
3. (intransitive) To cultivate soil.
4. (obsolete) To prepare; to get.

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Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:till.

Translations

Etymology 4

Unknown, but possibly via etymology 3 (the verb) because alluvial deposit is used as a fertilizer.

Noun

till

1. glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders
2. (dialect) manure or other material used to fertilize land

Derived terms

• glacial till

Translations

Etymology 5

From Middle English tylle; shortened from lentile (English lentil).

Noun

till (plural tills)

1. A vetch; a tare.

References

General

• till in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• till in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Until, Till, 'Til, or 'Till? in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, 11 June 2019.

Footnotes

Anagrams

• it'll, lilt

Estonian

Noun

till (genitive tilli, partitive tilli)

1. dill (herb)
2. (slang) penis

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Middle English

Verb

till

1. Alternative form of tillen (“to enthrall”)

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??i??/

Verb

till (past thill, future tillidh, verbal noun tilleadh, past participle tillte)

1. to return, come back
2. to relapse

References

• A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish til, from Old Norse til, from Proto-Germanic *tila- (“goal”), from Proto-Indo-European *ád (“near, at”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?l/

Preposition

till

1. to

   Välkommen till Sverige!

   Welcome to Sweden!

   Ge den till mig.

   Give it to me.

   Vi behöver två till fem nya datorer.

   We need two to five new computers.

2. for

   en bra TV till ett bra pris

   a good TV for a good price

   Vad vill du ha till middag?

   What do you want for dinner?

   en present till min syster

   a present for my sister

   pengar till resan

   money for the trip

3. with

   Jag tar mjölk till mitt kaffe

   I take milk with my coffee

Usage notes

• Earlier, till governed the genitive case. Remains can still be found in certain expressions: tillbaka (“back”), till bords (“to the table”), till buds (“to aid, at hand”), till doms (“to judgement”), tillfreds (“at peace, content”), till godo (“for good, as credit”), till hands (“at hand”), tillhanda (“at hand, available”), till havs (“to sea”), till kojs (“to bed”), till kungs (“to the king”), till lags (“of service, to please”), till lands (“on land”), till livs (“to life, to eat”), till påska (“until Easter”), till reds (“to aid”), till sjöss (“to sea”), till skogs (“to the forest”), till sängs (“to bed”), till torgs (“to the market”), till väders (“in the air”)

Derived terms

• hur står det till?

Adverb

till

1. another; in addition
   • Jag ska vara här en vecka till.
     • I'll be here for another week.

Wolof

Noun

till (definite form till gi)

1. jackal

English

Etymology

From Middle English tilthe, from Old English tilþ, tilþe, corresponding to till +? -th.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?

Noun

tilth (countable and uncountable, plural tilths)

1. Agricultural labour; husbandry.
2. The state of being tilled, or prepared for a crop; culture.

   The land is in good tilth and ready to plant.

3. Rich cultivated soil.
   • 1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial 1995, p. 333:

     One morning she was kneeling on an old grain sack on the wet black soil, turning the thick rich tilth over and smoothing it ready for the new lettuces.

Related terms

• till
• tillage

Translations

Middle English

Noun

tilth

1. Alternative form of tilthe