fius

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English fuse.

Noun

fius (plural fius-fius)

  1. (electrical engineering) fuse, a device to prevent overloading of a circuit.

Synonyms

Further reading

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • fiuss

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *wissus, from Proto-Indo-European *wéydtus (genitive *widtéws), a derivation of *weyd- (“know, see”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɸʲiu̯s]

Noun

fius n

  1. 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.
  2. information
  3. message

Inflection

The neuter plural fess is not expected, since Proto-Celtic *-tus is expected to derive masculine action nouns, not neuters.

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:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: fis, fiss
    • Irish: fios
    • Manx: fys
    • Scottish Gaelic: fios

Mutation

Mutation of fius
radical lenition nasalization
fius ḟius fius
pronounced with /β̃ʲ-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

Woleaian

Noun

fius

  1. star
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