fius

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English fuse.

Noun

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

• 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

• fiuss

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʲiu̯s/

Noun

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. 10^b27

     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

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

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

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
fius	ḟius	fius pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 fis, fius”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Woleaian

Noun

fius

1. star