fius

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Malay

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English fuse.

Noun

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fius (plural fius-fius, informal 1st possessive fiusku, 2nd possessive fiusmu, 3rd possessive fiusnya)

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

Synonyms

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Further reading

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Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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

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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

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

Mutation

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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

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Woleaian

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Noun

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fius

  1. star