fius
Malay
Etymology
From English fuse.
Noun
fius (plural fius-fius, informal 1st possessive fiusku, 2nd possessive fiusmu, 3rd possessive fiusnya)
- (electrical engineering) fuse, a device to prevent overloading of a circuit.
Synonyms
- sekring (Indonesian)
Further reading
- “fius” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- fiuss
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *wissus, from Proto-Indo-European *wéydtus, a derivation of *weyd- (“know, see”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fʲiu̯s/
Noun
fius n
- knowledge
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10b27
- A ḟius sin immurgu ba maith són, act ní bed úall and. Atá són and trá et ní béo de.
- Knowledge of that, however, that would be good, provided there would be no pride in it. That [pride] is in it, then, and it [knowledge] is not alive from it.
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10b27
- information
- message
Inflection
| Neuter u-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | fiusN | fiusL | fessL, fessa |
| Vocative | fiusN | fiusL | fius |
| Accusative | fiusN | fiusL | fius |
| Genitive | fessoH, fessaH | fessoN, fessaN | fessN |
| Dative | fiusL | fessaib | fessaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
- Middle Irish: fis, fiss
- Irish: fios
- Manx: fys
- Scottish Gaelic: fios
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| fius | ḟius | fius pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 fis, fius”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language