1547 (original; printed1870), Andrew Boorde,The First Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge, page 122:
Ich cham a Cornysche man, al[e] che can brew;[…]Nym me a quart of ale, that iche may it of sup.
1566–1573 (original; printed1873), John Partridge,The Hystorie of the Moste Noble Knight Plasidas, and Other Rare Pieces, page 106:
Then Alfyne to the court Of Syleuma doth come, And Pandauola in her armes Her Alfyne hath upnum And kisseth him full ofte[…]
2017, Thomas Heywood,A Woman Killed With Kindness, Bloomsbury Publishing,→ISBN, page155:
Gryndall carefully sets out the difference between seizing ornimming a bird (an outcome that would constitute a partly successful flight) and taking the bird outright: 'And if your Hawke noume [nim, seize] a foule, and the foule breake from her, she hath discomfited many feathers of the foule, and is broken away: but in kindly speech you shall say, your hawke hath noumed or seased a foule, and not taken it'.
They'll question Mars, and, by his look, Detect who 'twas thatnimm'd a cloak;
1785, Hutton,Bran New Wark, I. 305, quoted in1903, Joseph Wright,The English Dialect Dictionary: M-Q, page 273:
Nimming and niftering whativver he can try his fists on.
1821, Apuleius,The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius, of Medaura, page131:
But while he fell in some brave exploit, you, I suppose, being provident rogues and thieves of discretion, were on the sure lay, pilfering little thefts among the mob, fearfullynimming a cloak or rifling some old woman's bulk of a stock to set up a piece-broker's shop.
1824 (edition; original 1790), Nairne,Tales, 37, quoted in1903, Joseph Wright,The English Dialect Dictionary: M-Q, page 273:
Theynim a pig, a duck, or fowl.
1854, Oliver Oldham,Oldham's Amusing and Instructive Reader: A Course of Reading, Original and Selected, in Prose and Poetry, Wherein Wit, Humor, and Mirth are Made the Means of Awakening Interest, and Imparting Instructon : for the Use of Schools and Academies, page110:
Shall we gonim a horse, Tom,—what dost think?[…]Nim? yes, yes, yes, let'snim with all my heart; I see no harm innimming, for my part;[…] Were it my lord mayor's hourse—I'dnim it first. [...A horse] they stole, or, as they called it,nimmed, Just as the twilight all the landscape dimmed.[…] What is most likely, is that both these elves Were, in like manner, halter-nimmed themselves.
1856, Thompson,Hist. Boston, page 716, quoted in1903, Joseph Wright,The English Dialect Dictionary: M-Q, page 273:
The old lady doesnim along.
1949, Wilfrid J. Halliday, Arthur Stanley Umpleby,The White Rose Garland of Yorkshire Dialect Verse and Local and Folk-lore Rhymes (quoting Irene Sutcliffe), page111:
Ah had set myself doon where the aums meet aboon, When Jinny jamp oop, and gannednimming alang
E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “nim”, inAn Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London,→ISBN
Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2004),Parlons Afar: Langue et Culture, L'Hammartan,→ISBN,page67
Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015),L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
Barassounon, Pierre; Biɔ, Sanu; Biɔ, Thébault; Goragui, Léonard; Soutar, Jean (17 February 2021),Dictionnaire Baatonum[2], Philadelphia: SIL International
Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “ni’m”, inLīvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary][4] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra
1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 2 Dated or archaic. 3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
