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Asturian
Etymology
From Latin fīlius.
Noun
fíu m (plural fíos)
- son
- child (son or daughter)
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *wesus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wésus (“excellent”). Cognate to Welsh gwiw, Sanskrit वसु (vásu, “excellent, good, beneficent”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
fíu
- worthy, fitting
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 44c2
.i. air bin fiu leu etir- I was worthy at all in their opinion.
- (sometimes) worthwhile
- worth, equivalent to
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 63d1
amal ní bimmis fíu ní etir- as if we were not worth anything at all
- (following co) to the extent of, even including
- (after comparative) than, as
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