tillest

«tillest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you till — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you till

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«tillest» means «you till», a form of «till»: Till means until, up to a time: open from 9 till 5. tree →

how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -est or -st was the ending used with thou, which today is you with no ending: «thou tillest» = «you till».

examples

• When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a wanderer shalt thou be in the earth.' (Torah GEN.4.12, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «till», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 1, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «tillest» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.