Til Definition
tĭl
preposition
Until.
American Heritage
Webster's New World
(archaic) ~ to: as far as; down to; up to, until.
1425, Wycliffe, “Ezekial 40:15", in Wycliffe Bible:He maad frountis by sixti cubitis ... and bifore the face of the áµ¹ate that lastid til to the face of the porche of the ynner áµ¹ate, fifti cubitis.
Wiktionary
conjuntion
Until.
American Heritage
C1390, Geoffry Chaucer, “The Canterbury Tales":"ŠHe slepeth...Al nyght til the sonne gan aryse.
2010 May, James Parker, “Revenge of the Wimps", The Atlantic Monthly, volume 305, number 4, page 38:"ŠEVEN IF YOU MAKE ME WRITE IN THIS EVERY DAY TIL THEY LET ME OUT OF HERE.
Wiktionary
noun
Webster's New World
Origin of Til
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From Middle English til, from Old English til (“to, until"), possibly from Old Norse til, both from Proto-Germanic *tila- (“goal"), from Proto-Indo-European *ád (“near, at"). Compare to Old Frisian til
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