different between tyme vs zyme

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

From Ancient Greek ???? (zúm?, “leaven”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /za?m/

Noun

zyme (plural zymes)

1. A ferment.
2. (obsolete, medicine) The morbific principle of a zymotic disease.

References

• zyme in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Zymotic disease on Wikipedia.Wikipedia