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4-letter words (2 found)

LILT,TILL,

3-letter words (3 found)

ILL,LIT,TIL,

2-letter words (3 found)

IT,LI,TI,

You can make 8 words from till according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

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till itll tlil ltil iltl litl till itll tlil ltil iltl litl tlli ltli tlli ltli llti llti illt lilt illt lilt llit llit

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Definitions and meaning of till

till

Pronunciation

  • enPR: tĭl, IPA(key): /tɪl/
  • Rhymes: -ɪl

Etymology 1

From Middle English til, from Northern Old English til, from or akin to Old Norse til (“to, till”); both from Proto-Germanic *til (“to, toward”), from Proto-Germanic *tilą (“planned point in time”). Not a shortening of until; rather, until comes from till with the prefix un- (“against; toward; up to”) also found in unto. Cognate with Old Frisian til (“to, till”), Danish til (“to”), Swedish till (“to, till”), Icelandic til (“to, till”). Also related to Old English til (“good”), German Ziel (“goal”), Gothic 𐍄𐌹𐌻 (til, “something fitting or suitable”).

Preposition

till

  1. Until; to, up to; as late as (a given time).
  2. (obsolete, dialect) To, up to (physically).
  3. (obsolete, dialect) To, toward (in attitude).
  4. (dialectal) To make it possible that.
    • 1953?, Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
      VLADIMIR: Together again at last! We'll have to celebrate this. But how? (He reflects.) Get up till I embrace you.
Usage notes

The preposition till is ubiquitous in informal register in modern English; nonetheless, in formal register it is often replaced with until or to, except for in some varieties, such as Indian English. This predisposition is likely influenced by the widespread misapprehension that till is a "corruption" of 'til, although it is not. In fact 'til itself is also deprecated by some writers because its apostrophe was born of that same misapprehension.

Synonyms
  • (until): til (nonstandard), 'til (nonstandard), until
Derived terms
Translations

Conjunction

till

  1. Until, until the time that.
    Maybe you can, maybe you can't: you won't know till you try.
    • 1912, anonymous, Punky Dunk and the Mouse, P.F. Volland & Co.:
      And the Mouse sat and laughed till he cried.
Synonyms
  • (until): til (nonstandard), 'til (poetic), until; see also Thesaurus:until
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English tylle (“till”), possibly from Middle English tillen (“to draw”) from Old English *tyllan (“to draw, attract”) (as in betyllan (“to lure, decoy”) and fortyllan (“to draw away”); related to *tollian > Middle English tollen). Cognate with Albanian ndjell (“I lure, attract”).

Alternatively, Middle English tylle is from Anglo-Norman tylle (“compartment”), from Old French tille (“compartment, shelter on a ship”), from Old Norse þilja (“plank”).

Noun

till (plural tills)

  1. A cash register.
  2. A removable box within a cash register containing the money.
  3. The contents of a cash register, for example at the beginning or end of the day or of a cashier's shift.
  4. A cash drawer in a bank, used by a teller.
  5. (obsolete) A tray or drawer in a chest.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English tilyen, from Old English tilian.

Verb

till (third-person singular simple present tills, present participle tilling, simple past and past participle tilled)

  1. (transitive) To develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc.).
  2. (transitive) To work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops.
  3. (intransitive) To cultivate soil.
  4. (obsolete) To prepare; to get.
Quotations
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:till.
Translations

Etymology 4

Unknown, but possibly via etymology 3 (the verb) because alluvial deposit is used as a fertilizer.

Noun

till

  1. glacial drift consisting of a mixture of clay, sand, pebbles and boulders
  2. (dialect) manure or other material used to fertilize land
Derived terms
  • glacial till
Translations

Etymology 5

From Middle English tylle; shortened from lentile (English lentil).

Noun

till (plural tills)

  1. A vetch; a tare.

References

General
  • “till”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “till”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • Until, Till, 'Til, or 'Till? in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, 11 June 2019.
Footnotes

Anagrams

  • it'll, lilt, lit'l

Estonian

Etymology

From Middle Low German dille.

Noun

till (genitive tilli, partitive tilli)

  1. dill (herb)
  2. (slang) penis

Declension

References

  • till in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Middle English

Verb

till

  1. Alternative form of tillen (“to enthrall”)

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish tillid, alteration of Old Irish fillid (compare Irish fill).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃʰiːʎ/
  • (Lewis) IPA(key): [t͡ʃʰəiʎ]

Verb

till (past thill, future tillidh, verbal noun tilleadh, past participle tillte)

  1. to return, come back
  2. to relapse
    Thill ris. ― He has got a relapse.

References

Further reading

  • MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC

Swedish

Alternative forms

  • (archaic) til

Etymology

From Old Swedish til, from Old Norse til, from Proto-Germanic *tila- (“goal”), from Proto-Indo-European *ád (“near, at”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɪl/
  • IPA(key): /tɪ/ (see the usage notes for the preposition below)
  • IPA(key): /teː/

Preposition

till

  1. to
  2. for
  3. with
  4. at (the next, timewise)

Usage notes

  • Often (more or less subconsciously to native speakers) clipped to "ti" (/tɪ/) in speech. Such clipping is less common for the adverb below, even when till is not the final word in the sentence, due to till being stressed as an adverb.
  • Earlier, till governed the genitive case. Remains can still be found in certain expressions: ge sig till tåls (“show patience”), tillbaka (“back”), till bords (“at the table”), till buds (“at one's disposal”), till doms (“to judgement”), till döds (“to death”), tillfreds (“at peace, content”), till godo (“for good, as credit”), till fots (“on foot”), till hands (“at hand”), tillhanda (“at hand, available”), till havs (“at/to sea”), krypa till kojs (“go to bed”), till kungs (“to the king”), till lags (“of service, to please”), till lands (“on land”), till livs (“to life, to eat”), till påska (“until Easter”), till reds (“to aid”), till sjöss (“at/to sea”), till skogs (“at/to the forest”), till sängs (“to bed”), till torgs (“to the market”), till vardags (“on weekdays”), till väders (“up into the air”), gå till väga (“go about”), ta till orda (“start speaking”)

Derived terms

  • hur står det till?

Related terms

  • tills

Adverb

till

  1. another, more; in addition
  2. Expresses something happening suddenly and for a short duration, when added after certain verbs. The examples below are for illustration and not comprehensive. Fairly productive for verbs where suddenness and short duration make intuitive sense.
    Han skrattade ― He laughed
    Han skrattade till ― He chuckled
    Han hoppade ― He jumped
    Han hoppade till ― He flinched
    Han somnade ― He fell asleep
    Han somnade till ― He nodded off
    Han slog honom ― He hit him
    Han slog till honom ― He gave him a punch (fairly synonymous, but makes it clear that it's a single punch and sounds a bit more intense)
    Han syntes ― He was visible
    Han syntes till ― He was spotted
  3. Expresses (completely or partially) changing or creating something through the action of a verb, similar to English up. Sometimes more or less redundant like in English, with a similar difference in tone.
    Synonym: (sometimes) för-
    ful ― ugly
    fula till ― ugly up (uglify)
    fula till något ― ugly something up
    knäppa till jackan ― button up one's jacket ("till" skippable, like in English)
    laga till en måltid ― cook up a meal ("till" skippable, like in English)
    trä ― wood
    träa till ― "wood up" (make woodier or the like, as an ad-hoc formation, which usually sound colloquial like in English)
  4. (in some phrasal verbs) (into) existence
  5. to a toward orientation

Usage notes

The stress is on till, which helps disambiguate.

Derived terms

  • en till

References

  • till in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • till in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • till in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Wolof

Noun

till (definite form till gi)

  1. jackal

Yola

Preposition

till

  1. Alternative form of del

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 96

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