nim

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  1. transitive and intransitive verb Archaic To steal; pilfer.
  2. noun A game in which players in turn remove small objects from a collection, such as matchsticks arranged in rows, and attempt to take, or avoid taking, the last one.

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  1. Middle English nimen, to take, from Old English niman; see nem- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Perhaps from German nimm, second person sing. imperative of nehmen, to take, from Middle High German nemen, from Old High German neman; see nem- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English nimen, nemen (pret, nam, nom, pl, nome, past participle numen, nomen, nome), from Anglo-Saxon niman (preterit nam, nom, plural nāmon, past participle numen) = Old Saxon niman, neman = OFries. nima, nema = Dutch nemen = Middle Low German Low German nemen = Old High German neman, Middle High German nemen, German nehmen = Icelandic nema, take, = Danish nemme, apprehend, learn, = Goth, niman, take; perhaps = Greek νέμειν, deal out, distribute, dispense, assign, also, as in mid. νέμεσθαι, take as one's own, have, hold, possess, manage, sway, rule, etc., also pasture, graze, feed, etc. (later νέμος, a wooded pasture, = Latin nemus, a grove, wood, etc.; νομός, a pasture, νόμος, law, etc.: see name, nome, etc.). Connection with L. emere, take, buy (later English emption, exempt, redeem, redemption, etc.), and Irish em, take, is improbable. The verb nim, formerly the usual word for ‘take,’ has in most senses become obsolete (being displaced by take), but its derivatives, numb (orig. past participle) and nimble, are in common use.
  2. Hind, nīm.
 

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