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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

Alternative forms

• tike

Etymology

From Middle English tike, tyke, from Old Norse tík (“bitch”). Compare modern Icelandic tík (“bitch, female dog”), Faroese tík (“bitch, female dog”), Swedish tik (“bitch, female dog”). For sense 5, early 20th century: alteration of Taig.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta?k/
• Rhymes: -a?k

Noun

tyke (plural tykes)

1. (dialectal) A mongrel dog.
2. (colloquial) A small child, especially a cheeky or mischievous one
   1. (Canada) An initiation level of sports competition for young children (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (dated, chiefly Britain) A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
   • 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Him, ch 5:

     Why, the inquiry thing, the yellow-dog thing—you wouldn’t think a mangy, native tyke would be allowed to trip up people in the verandah of a magistrate’s court, would you?

4. (Britain, informal) A person from Yorkshire; a Yorkshireman or Yorkshirewoman
5. (Australia, New Zealand, informal, derogatory) A Roman Catholic

Synonyms

• (mongrel dog): mongrel, mutt
• (slang: small child): ankle-biter, nipper, tot

Related terms

• Tyke

Translations

References

“tyke”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

Anagrams

• Kyte, kyte, tyek