til
Sesame (plant: Sesamum indicum)
Conjunction
- until, till
Origin
From Middle English til, from Old English til (“to, until”), possibly from Old Norse til, both from Proto-Germanic *tilą (“goal”), or Proto-Germanic *til (“to, towards”). Compare to Old Frisian til.
Forms
Noun
- Sesame (plant: Sesamum indicum)
- Any of species Ocotea foetens in family Lauraceae, native to Madeira and the Canary Islands.
Origin
Borrowed from Hindi तिल (til, “sesame”).
Forms
Derived
Preposition
- until, till
- I just don't know how to just come out in the blue and say it, so I just wait til it comes up... - 2004 Nov, Harper, Gary W., Gannon, Christine, Watson, Susan E., Catania, Joseph A., and Dolcini, M. Margaret, “The Role...
- Let him wander round and kids gone meddle him til he get to fighting again. - 2008 Winter, Michael Copperman, “Gone”, in Arkansas Review, volume 39, number 3, Arkansas State University, pages 139–145:
- EVEN IF YOU MAKE ME WRITE IN THIS EVERY DAY TIL THEY LET ME OUT OF HERE - 2010 May, James Parker, “Revenge of the Wimps”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 305, number 4, page 38: