visse

• IPA^(key): /ˈfə.sə/

visse

1. plural of vis

From Old Norse vise.

visse

1. (botany) broom, shrub in the genus genista

visse

1. definite of vis
2. plural of vis

visse

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of vissen

From Middle Dutch visse (“polecat”), borrowed via Old French from Latin vissio (“weasel”) (see French vison (“mink”)). Cognate to English fitchew, English fitch and English fitchet. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced? Particularly: “there is no such word "vissio" meaning "weasel" attested in Latin”)

visse f (plural vissen, diminutive vissetje n or visseke n)

1. (Southern, dialectal) European polecat, Mustela putorius

   Synonyms: bunzing (standard Dutch), stinkmarter, ulk

   • 1907, Vlaanderen: algemeen Vlaamsch maandschrift, volume V, 486:

     't Zal een ratte zijn of een visse, gromde hij.

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   • 1938, Biekorf, volumes 44, 113:

     Bij 't speuren van een konijnenpijpe was daar een visse uitgesprongen

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• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “visse”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

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visse

1. inflection of visser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative
2. first-person singular imperfect subjunctive of voir

• sévis, vises, visés

visse

1. (reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ver

visse

1. third-person singular past historic of vivere

• vessi

visse

1. definite singular of viss
2. plural of viss

From Old Norse vissa.

visse f (definite singular vissa, indefinite plural visser, definite plural vissene)

1. certainty

From viss (“certain”) +‎ -e.

visse (present tense vissar, past tense vissa, past participle vissa, passive infinitive vissast, present participle vissande, imperative visse/viss)

1. (transitive) to assure

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

visse

1. inflection of viss:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• vissent

visse

1. neuter singular of vissen

• “visse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• sveis

visse

1. first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of ver

visse

1. definite natural masculine singular of viss

• vi ses, vises