The origin of "time"

The origin of the word "time" comes from Proto-Indo-European *di-mon-, meaning "to divide". It then evolved from Proto-Germanic *timon- to Old English tima, meaning "limited space of time". In the 14th century appeared the abstract sense of time as "an indefinite continuous duration". Time is personified at least since 1509 as an old man with a forelock carrying a scythe and an hour-glass. In English, this single word has multiple meanings such as "extent," "point" and "hour". Many more senses like "occasion," "the right time," "leisure," or times "multiplied by" were developed back in Old…