nimen

See also: nǐmen

Finnish

Noun

nimen

1. genitive singular of nimi

Anagrams

• -minen, menin, minne

Middle English

Alternative forms

• nymen

Etymology

From Old English niman, from Proto-Germanic *nemaną, probably from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“take”).

Verb

nimen (third-person singular simple present nimeth, present participle nimende, nimynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative nom, past participle nomen)

1. To take; to take up, draw.
   • c. 1190, Layamon, Brut: Cotton Caligula MS, ll. 15249–15256; transcribed and translated in 1847, Frederic Madden (ed.), Laȝamons Brut, or Chronicle of Britain, Volume II. London.: Society of Antiquaries of London, page 214:

     Ƿa weoren Bruttes
     imænged wið þan Saxeſ
     þa cleopede Hengeſt
     cnihtene swikelæſt
     Nimeð eoure ſexes
     sele mine bernes
     & ohtliche eou ſturieð
     & nænne ne ſparieð

     When the Britons were mingled with the Saxons, then called [said] Hengest, of [all] knights most treacherous, "Take your sæxes, 'my good warriors,' and bravely bestir you, 'and spare ye none'!"

   • 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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. To undertake, betake.
3. To go; enter.

Conjugation

Conjugation of nimen (strong class 4)

infinitive	(to) nimen, nime
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	nime	nom, nam
2nd-person singular	nimest	nome, name, nom, nam
3rd-person singular	nimeth	nom, nam
subjunctive singular	nime	nome1, name1
imperative singular		—
plural2	nimen, nime	nomen, nome, namen, name
imperative plural	nimeth, nime	—
participles	nimynge, nimende	numen, nume, nomen, nome

¹Replaced by the indicative in later Middle English.
²Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Descendants

• English: nim; numb (from past participle)
• Scots: nim

Yapese

Noun

nimen

1. chicken