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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/tillest/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/tillest/#x1)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/tillest/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.