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)
- (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 […]
- 1998, Richard Hanley, Is Data Human?
Old Irish
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| 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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