nimen

== Finnish == === Noun === nimen 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) 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: 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": To undertake, betake. To go; enter. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Descendants ==== English: nim; numb (from past participle) Scots: nim == Yapese == === Noun === nimen chicken