tiss
See also: tīšs
English
Verb
tiss (third-person singular simple present tisses, present participle tissing, simple past and past participle tissed)
- (nonce word) To make a hissing sound.
- 1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19:
- He ran along the edge, quickening at the shout of the kennel-boy, and had almost reached the island’s tail when Bite’m pinned him in the shoulder. Tissing through his open mouth, Tarka rolled and fought with the terriers.
Cimbrian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle High German tisch, from Old High German tisc (“plate”), from Proto-West Germanic *disk, borrowed from Latin discus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos).
Noun
tiss m (plural tissar)
Declension
Declension of tiss
References
- “tiss” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
Estonian
Etymology
From Middle Low German tis or Swedish tiss.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtisʲː/, [ˈtʲisʲː]
- Rhymes: -isʲː
- Hyphenation: tiss
Noun
tiss (genitive tissi, partitive tissi)
- (colloquial) boob, tit
- Synonym: rind
- 2003, Uno Mereste, Toimunust & kaasaelatust: osa. Meenutusi aastaist 1928-1964[1], SE & JS, →ISBN, page 300:
- Enne kui seal rahva ees suu lahti tegin, kuulsin kõrvus kajamas "tissid" ja sain aru, mis ma tegelikult olin kaunile õele öelnud.
- Before I opened my mouth in front of the crowd, I heard “tits” ringing in my ears and realised what I had actually said to my beautiful sister.
Declension
Declension of tiss (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | tiss | tissid | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | tissi | ||
genitive | tisside | ||
partitive | tissi | tisse tissisid | |
illative | tissi tississe |
tissidesse tissesse | |
inessive | tissis | tissides tisses | |
elative | tissist | tissidest tissest | |
allative | tissile | tissidele tissele | |
adessive | tissil | tissidel tissel | |
ablative | tissilt | tissidelt tisselt | |
translative | tissiks | tissideks tisseks | |
terminative | tissini | tissideni | |
essive | tissina | tissidena | |
abessive | tissita | tissideta | |
comitative | tissiga | tissidega |
References
- tiss in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
- “tiss”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “tiss”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
tiss n (definite singular tisset, uncountable)
Noun
tiss m (definite singular tissen, indefinite plural tisser, definite plural tissene)
Verb
tiss
- imperative of tisse
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
tiss m (definite singular tissen, indefinite plural tissar, definite plural tissane)
Noun
tiss n (definite singular tisset, indefinite plural tiss, definite plural tissa)