tissu
French
Etymology
From Old French tissu, participle of tistre (modern tisser). Compare Italian tessuto.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ti.sy/
audio (le tissu) (file)
Noun
tissu m (plural tissus)
- fabric
- (anatomy) tissue
Further reading
- “tissu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Alternative forms
- tissew, tisshew, tisshue, tissue, tusshewe, tussu, tysshew, tysshewe, tyssew, tyssu, tyssue
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French tissu, past participle of tistre.
Forms with /ʃ/ do not reflect palatalisation of /s/ (as in modern English); instead, they exist because Old French /s(s)/ was perceived as being phonetically closer to Middle English /ʃ/ than to /s/.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tiˈsiu̯/, /tiˈʃiu̯/
- (with stress retraction) IPA(key): /ˈtisiu̯/, /ˈtiʃiu̯/
Noun
tissu
- tissue (silk fabric)
- A strip of such fabric.
Descendants
- English: tissue
- Scots: tishie
References
- “tissheu, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.