Etymology

ME in + til.

PGmc Ancestor

*til-

Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)

til ‘to, until etc.'
(ONP til (præp.))

Other Scandinavian Reflexes

Far til, Icel til, Norw til, Dan til, Sw till, til

OE Cognate

til (Nhb) 'to, until'

Phonological and morphological markers

Summary category

C5c

Attestation

First attested in Orrm, and esp. frequent in N/EM texts, but also found further afield in later ME.  Confined to northern England, Scotland and Ireland in EDD.

Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus

WA 4764

Bibliography

MED in-til (prep.), OED intill, intil (prep.), EDD intil(l (prep.), Dance til, Bj. 222, SPS 492, de Vries til, Mag. til (1), Bj-L. til, Heid. tila-, Kroonen *tila-, AEWtil (3)