fiss

See also: Fiss

English

Etymology

From fission by back-formation.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɪs/
  • Rhymes: -ɪs

Verb

fiss (third-person singular simple present fisses, present participle fissing, simple past and past participle fissed)

  1. (transitive, nonstandard) To split apart into multiple entities.
    • 1998, Richard Hanley, Is Data Human?:
      Perhaps every five minutes each person ceases to exist and is fissed, with one descendant instantly replacing the original and the other materializing on a twin Earth somewhere []

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Venetian fiso, from Latin fixus (fixed, constant).

Adjective

fiss (comparative fissor, superlative dar fissorste) (Sette Comuni)

  1. stable, steady
  2. hard, firm
    De piarn zeint fiss.The pears are firm.
  3. dense, thick
    Dar balt is fiss.The forst is dense.

Declension

References

  • “fiss” 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

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fisso.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɪs/
  • Rhymes: -ɪs

Adjective

fiss (feminine singular fissa, plural fissi)

  1. fixed, firm

Old Irish

Noun

fiss ?

  1. Alternative spelling of fis

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
fiss ḟiss fiss
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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