jim
Shortening of jimmy.
jim (third-person singular simple present jims, present participle jimming, simple past and past participle jimmed)
Clipping of Jimmy O'Goblin, rhyming slang for a sovereign.
jim (plural jims)
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jim (plural jims)
“jim”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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Borrowed from Arabic جِيم (jīm).
jim (plural jimlar)
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | jim | jimlar |
genitive | jimning | jimlarning |
dative | jimga | jimlarga |
definite accusative | jimni | jimlarni |
locative | jimda | jimlarda |
ablative | jimdan | jimlardan |
similative | jimdek | jimlardek |
From Old Frisian jī, from Proto-Germanic *jūz, from Proto-Indo-European *yúHs, plural of *túh₂..
jim
personal | possessive | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
subject case | object case | determiner | pronoun | |||||
normal | reflexive | |||||||
singular | 1st | ik | my | mysels | myn | mines | ||
2nd | informal | do, dû1 | dy | dysels | dyn | dines | ||
formal | jo | jo | josels | jo | jowes | |||
3rd | m | hy | him | himsels | syn | sines | ||
f | sy, hja1 | har | harsels | har | harres | |||
n | it | it | himsels | syn | sines | |||
plural | 1st | wy | ús | ússels | ús | uzes | ||
2nd | jim(me) | jim(me) | jimsels, jinsels | jim(me) | jimmes | |||
3rd | sy, hja1 | har(ren) | harsels | har(ren) | harres |
1 Now mostly archaic and unused.
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