nim

Meanings

Verb

• To take or seize.
• To filch, steal, pilfer.
• To walk with short, quick strides; trip along.

Noun

• A game in which players take turns removing objects from heaps.

Origin

• From Middle English nimen, from Old English niman, from Proto-West Germanic *neman, from Proto-Germanic *nemaną, from Proto-Indo-European *nem-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian nieme, West Frisian nimme, Dutch nemen, Low German nehmen, German nehmen, Danish nemme. Related to numb and nimble.