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English

Noun

tyme (countable and uncountable, plural tymes)

1. Archaic spelling of time.

Anagrams

• etym, ymet

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French thym, from Latin thymum, from Ancient Greek ????? (thúmon).

Alternative forms

• time, thime

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tim/, /ti?m/

Noun

tyme (uncountable)

2. thyme (plants in the genus Thymus)

Descendants

• English: thyme

References

• “t??me, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.

Etymology 2

From Old English t?ma, from Proto-Germanic *t?mô. Doublet of demon.

Alternative forms

• timæ, time, teyme, teme, tyma, tym, tim, tima

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ti?m(?)/

Noun

tyme (plural tymes or tymen)

2. time (as a concept)
3. A specific duration or period of time; the following specific uses are most common:
   • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41

     And with alle these men I was ofte homli and I comownede with hem long tyme and fele, and so bifore alle othir men I chees wilfulli to be enformed bi hem and of hem”

   1. A reign; a period of time where a person holds an office.
   2. A lifetime; the time which a person's life is composed of.
   3. A portion of a larger period of time (e.g. a year; a day), especially a season or yeartide.
   4. A step or stage of a process or event.
   5. A ephemeral, momentane or very short duration; a point of time or instance.
4. A generic reference to some vaguely-specified or unspecified duration or point of time.
5. An occasion, event, or occurence; a specific time.
6. times; multiplied by (usually in the plural)
7. Specifies the ratio of comparison in a comparative sentence.
8. (grammar) Verbal tense; the way time is morphologically marked on a verb.

Derived terms

• timen
• tymeful
• tymely

Descendants

• English: time
• Scots: time, teime, tim
• Yola: deemes (plural)

References

• “t?me, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.

Etymology 3

Noun

tyme

1. Alternative form of teme (“topic”)

English

Etymology

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Noun

tye (plural tyes)

1. A knot; a tie.
2. (Britain) A patch of common land, often a village green.
3. (nautical) A chain or rope, one end of which passes through the mast, and is made fast to the center of a yard; the other end is attached to a tackle, by means of which the yard is hoisted or lowered.
4. (mining) A trough for washing ores.

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Translations

References

• 1748. David Hume. Enquiry concerning Human Understanding. Section 3. § 6.

  the events or actions, which the writer relates, must be connected together, by some bond or tye

Verb

tye (third-person singular simple present tyes, present participle tyeing, simple past and past participle tyed)

1. Obsolete form of tie.

Anagrams

• -ety, ety, tey, yet

Afrikaans

Noun

tye

1. plural of tyd

Sranan Tongo

Interjection

tye

1. oh