fius
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Malay
Etymology
Noun
fius (plural fius-fius, informal 1st possessive fiusku, 2nd possessive fiusmu, 3rd possessive fiusnya)
- (electrical engineering) fuse, a device to prevent overloading of a circuit.
Synonyms
- sekring (Indonesian)
Further reading
- “fius” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Old Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *wissus, from Proto-Indo-European *wéydtus (genitive *widtéws), a derivation of *weyd- (“know, see”).
Pronunciation
Noun
fius n
- 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 is in it, then, and it is not alive from it.
- 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
- information
- 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:
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Descendants
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| fius | ḟius | fius pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 fis, fius”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Woleaian
Noun
fius