till

till
\ \ English has three distinct words till, but two of them are probably related. The etymological notion underlying tillcultivate the soil’ [OE] is of ‘striving to obtain a goal’. Indeed, that is what its Old English ancestor tilian originally meant; ‘cultivate’ is a late Old English development, via an intermediate ‘labour’. The verb comes from a prehistoric Germanic *tilōjan, a derivative of the noun *tilamaim, purpose’ (source of German zielgoal’). This passed into Old English as tillfixed point’, which seems to have been converted into a preposition meaning ‘up to a particular point (originally in space, but soon also in time)’. The compound until dates from the 13th century; its first element was borrowed from Old Norse *undtill’. The origins of tillmoney box’ [15] are uncertain.

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