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1903, Endre Ady, Még egyszer… (Once Again…), poem, lines 1–6
Még egyszer meghajolni késztet A lelkem régi, színes álma, Még egyszer, ím, tárva elétek, Ami az enyém, ami drága: Piacra vont az ifju évek Álmodni vágyó ifjusága ...
^ ím in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.
Further reading
ím in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Old Norse
Etymology
Has an ablaut relationship with eimr. Thus presumedly from Proto-Germanic*īmą, from a marginal Proto-Indo-European root *h₁ey-(“~ to burn, smoke”), but there are no secure cognates outside of North Germanic, so the origin is uncertain.