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vis

See also: Vis, vís, viš, víš, -vis, Vis., and вис
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vis

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Vishavan.

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English

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 vis on Wikipedia

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Etymology 1

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Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-der.
Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁s
Proto-Italic *wīs
Latin vīsbor.
English vis

    Borrowed from Latin vīs.

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    vis (plural vires)

    1. Force; energy; might; power.
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    vis

    1. Abbreviation of viscount.

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    From Tamil வீசை (vīcai) and/or Telugu వీసె (vīse).

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    vis (plural visses)

    1. Alternative spelling of viss.

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    vis (not comparable)

    1. Clipping of visual.

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    vis (third-person singular simple present viss, present participle vising, simple past and past participle vised)

    1. Clipping of visualize.

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    vis (plural vises)

    1. Clipping of visualization.
    2. Clipping of visual.
    3. Clipping of visibility.
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    Afrikaans

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    Etymology

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    From Dutch vis, from Middle Dutch visch, from Old Dutch fisc, from Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-.

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    vis (plural visse, diminutive vissie)

    1. fish (aquatic organism)
    2. (collective) fish (multiple fish collectively)
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    Albanian

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    From Proto-Albanian *uitśi-(ā), from Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ- (“house, settlement”). Cognate to Sanskrit विश् (víś, “settlement, community, tribe”), Ancient Greek οἰκία (oikía, “house”), Latin vicus (“village”).[1][2]

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    vis m (plural vise, definite visi, definite plural viset)

    1. place
    2. land
    3. country

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    Declension of vis
    singular plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative vis visi vise viset
    accusative visin
    dative visi visit viseve viseve
    ablative visesh

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    1. ^ Albanische Etymologien (Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz), Bardhyl Demiraj, Leiden Studies in Indo-European 7; Amsterdam - Atlanta 1997.p . 419.
    2. ^ Vladimir, Orel. (2000) A concise historical grammar of the albanian language

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    • “vis”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
    • FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[3], 1980

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    vis

    1. second-person singular imperative of viset

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    Dalmatian

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    From Latin vādō.

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    vis

    1. (first-person singular indicative present) of zer

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    Etymology 1

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    From Old Norse vís (in ǫðru vís(i) "otherwise"), from Proto-Germanic *wīsō, *wīsǭ (“manner”). Cognate with Norwegian vis, Swedish vis, English wise, Dutch wijze and German Weise. Another variant of the same word is Danish vise (“song”), Swedish visa, from Old Norse vísa.

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    vis c

    1. manner, way
      Synonyms: måde, facon
      Altså må jeg finde æblerne på anden vis.
      In conclusion, I must find the apples some other way.
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    “vis,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

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    From Old Norse víss, from Proto-Germanic *wīsaz (“wise”). Cognates include Norwegian vis, Swedish vis, English wise, and German weise.

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    vis (neuter vist, plural and definite singular attributive vise)

    1. wise
      Coordinate terms: klog, indsigtsfuld
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    Inflection of vis
    positive comparative superlative
    indefinite common singular vis visere visest2
    indefinite neuter singular vist visere visest2
    plural vise visere visest2
    definite attributive1 vise visere viseste

    1 When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite,
    the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
    2 The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

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    “vis,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

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    From Old Norse viss, from Proto-Germanic *gawissaz, cognate with Norwegian viss, Swedish viss, German gewiss.

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    vis (neuter vist, plural and definite singular attributive visse)

    1. sure, certain
      den visse død
      certain death
    2. certain, a
      En vis Hr. Broholm vil tale med Dem.
      A mr. Broholm wishes to speak with you.
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    Inflection of vis
    positive comparative superlative
    indefinite common singular vis — —2
    indefinite neuter singular vist — —2
    plural visse — —2
    definite attributive1 visse — —

    1 When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite,
    the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
    2 The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

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    “vis,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

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    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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    vis

    1. imperative of vise

    Dutch

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    Etymology 1

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    From Middle Dutch visch, from Old Dutch fisc, from Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-.

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    vis m (plural vissen, diminutive visje n)

    1. (countable) fish (aquatic organism)
    2. (uncountable) fish (quantity of the above seen as catch, product, meat)
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    • Afrikaans: vis
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: fesi
    • Jersey Dutch: väśe
    • Negerhollands: visch, vesch, fes, fis, vis
      • → Virgin Islands Creole: fis (dated)
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: fesi, fisse, fiche
    • Petjo: fis
    • →? Aukan: fisi

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    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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    vis

    1. inflection of vissen:
      1. first-person singular present indicative
      2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
      3. imperative

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    Etymology 1

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    Une vis et un tournevis ― A screw and a screwdriver

      Inherited from Old French vis, from Latin vītis (“vine”).

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      vis f (invariable)

      1. screw (metal fastener)
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      • → Catalan: vis
      • → Vietnamese: vít

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      See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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      vis

      1. inflection of vivre:
        1. first/second-person singular present indicative
        2. second-person singular present imperative

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      vis

      1. first/second-person singular past historic of voir

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      Latin

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      Etymology 1

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        From Proto-Italic *wīs, from Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁s (“force, vehemence”), from *weyh₁- (“to rush”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ῑ̓́ς (ī́s, “strength”, < *ϝῑ̓́ς (*wī́s)), Sanskrit वय॑स् (váyas, “enjoyment; vigor; youth; age”). See also via, invītus, invītō, Ancient Greek οἶμος (oîmos).

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        vīs f (genitive vīs); third declension

        1. (in the singular) force
          Synonyms: rōbur, vehementia
          1. power; influence; strength; faculty; potency
            Synonym: ops
            vis dicendi ― oratorical power[1]
            magnam vim habere ad aliquid ― to have considerable influence on a question[1]
            ingenii vis ― vivid, lively imagination[1]
            mentis vis incitatior ― enthusiasm[1]
          2. violence; overwhelming force; coercion; assault; force of arms
            Synonyms: aggressiō, impressiō, assultus, invāsiō, concursus, impetus, appetītus, occursiō, oppugnātiō, incursus, incursiō, petītiō, ictus, procella
            iter tentare per vim ― to force a way, a passage[1]
            mare ventorum vi agitatur et turbatur ― there is a storm at sea[1]
            tanta vis frigoris insecuta est, ut... ― the frost set in so severely that...[1]
            ad vim atque ad arma confugere ― appeal to violence and fighting
            vim inferre alicui ― to do violence to a person[1]
            vim et manus afferre alicui ― to kill with violence[1]
            accusare aliquem de vi ― to accuse a person of violence[1]
            res spectat ad vim (arma) ― there seems a prospect of armed violence; things look like violence[1]
            vim vi depellere ― to meet force by force[1]
            vi et armis ― by force of arms[1]
            ad vim et arma descendere ― to have recourse to force of arms[1]
          3. (figuratively):
            1. meaning; significance; nature (essence and value of a word)
              quae est vis huius verbi? ― what is the meaning, the original sense of this word?[1]
              vis et notio verbi, vocabuli ― the fundamental meaning of a word[1]
            2. assault; affront
            3. quantity; flood
              frumenti vim maximam comparare ― to procure a very large supply of corn[1]
              vim lacrimarum effundere, profundere ― to burst into a flood of tears[1]
          4. (New Latin, physics) energy; force
          5. (New Latin, Star Wars) force
            • Sit vīs tēcum.
              May the Force be with you.
        2. (in the plural) strength; might; vigor; capability (physical)
          Synonyms: rōbur, ops
          omnibus vīribus ― with all his strength; with all her might; with all their force
          vires corporis ― bodily strength[1]
          vires colligere ― to gain strength[1]
          vires aliquem deficiunt ― to lose strength[1]
          dum vires suppetunt ― as long as one's strength holds out[1]
          vires consenescunt ― to become old and feeble[1]
          bonis esse viribus ― to be robust, vigorous[1]
          pro viribus ― as well as I can; to the best of my ability[1]
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        • In Republican Latin, the genitive singular is unattested, and the dative singular is rare; forms of rōbur (rōboris, rōborī) are used instead. The genitive singular is attested in imperial Roman authors; it occurs once in Tacitus (considered dubious by many editors) and multiple times in the legal writing of jurists such as Ulpian. Varro (De Lingua Latina 8.7) may obliquely refer to it when saying that the nominative form is shared with an oblique form ("et recto et obliquo vocabulo vis"). Per Weiss 2009, the etymologically expected genitive singular would be *vīis, which could have been contracted to vīs, but Weiss thinks the genitive singular was more likely an analogical creation on the model turris (n.s.) : turris (g.s.) :: vīs (n.s.) : vīs (g.s.).[2]
        • The plural forms of this noun are often treated as a separate plurale tantum noun, with a distinct meaning of "strength". An analogical nominative/accusative plural vīs is occasionally found, beginning with Lucretius.[2]
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        Third-declension noun (non-neuter pure i-stem or non-neuter i-stem; two different stems).

        singular plural
        nominative vīs vīrēs
        vīs
        genitive vīs vīrium
        dative vī vīribus
        accusative vim vīrēs
        vīrīs
        vīs
        ablative vī vīribus
        vocative vīs vīrēs
        vīs
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        Etymology 2

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        From Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁si, second-person singular present of *wéyh₁ti. This particular form is suppletive, in contrast to the other forms of volō which derive from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-, with the expected etymological inflection *wels becoming vel (“or; and/or”).

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        vīs

        1. second-person singular present active indicative of volō
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        • The verb nōlō originally had the equivalent form nevīs, but it fell out of use in favour of nōn vīs by the Classical period.
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        1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
        2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Weiss, Michael L. (2009), Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin‎[2], Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press, →ISBN, § III, pages 255-6

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        • “vis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
        • “vis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
        • "vis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
        • “vis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
        • “vis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
        • “vis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
        • “vis”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
        • De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 683
        • Forcellini, Egidio; Furlanetto, Giuseppe (ed.); Corradini, Francesco (ed.); and Perin, Giuseppe (ed.) (1733-1965). Lexicon Totius Latinitatis. Bologna: Arnaldo Forni. Vol. IVb. p. 1011.
        • Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag
        • Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
        •   Vis medicatrix naturae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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        vis (invariable)

        1. Used to strengthen denying of the verb
          nav vis ― not at all
          es neiešu vis ― I shall not go

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        vis

        1. very, most (synonym of word pats)

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        From Old French vis.

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        vis m (plural vis)

        1. face

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        vis

        1. first-person singular preterite of vaie

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        Etymology 1

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        From Old Norse víss.

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        vis (neuter singular vist, definite singular and plural vise, comparative visere, indefinite superlative visest, definite superlative viseste)

        1. wise
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        vis

        1. imperative of vise

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        Etymology 1

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        From Old Norse víss, from Proto-Germanic *wīsaz. Akin to English wise.

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        vis (neuter vist, definite singular and plural vise, comparative visare, indefinite superlative visast, definite superlative visaste)

        1. wise
          Han er ein vis mann.
          He is a wise man.

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        From Old Norse vís, from Proto-Germanic *wīsō. Akin to English wise.

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        vis f or m or n (definite singular visen or visa or viset, indefinite plural visar or viser or vis, definite plural visane or visene or visa)

        1. a way, manner
          Synonym: måte
          Dette har vore gjort på ulike vis.
          This has been done in different ways.
          Her gjer med det på dette viset.
          We do it in this manner here.
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        • The by far most common gender in use is neuter.
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        Historical inflection of vis
        singular plural
        indefinite definite indefinite definite
        Aasen1 Vis f Visi Viser Viserna
        1901 viser (visir) viserne (visine)
        1917 visa, visi viser visene2
        1938 visa [visi]
        1959 vis m, f or n visen; visa [visi]; viset visar; viser; vis visane; visene; visa [visi]
        2012 (current) vis m, f or n visen; visa; viset visar; viser; vis visane; visene; visa
        • Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard.
        • Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier.
        • Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen.
        • 1Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century. 2Form was allowed for schoolchildren as of 1910.

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        vis

        1. imperative of visa

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        Etymology 1

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          Inherited from Latin vīsus m.

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          vis oblique singular, m (oblique plural vis, nominative singular vis, nominative plural vis)

          1. (anatomy) face
            Synonyms: visage m, face f
          2. opinion
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          Etymology 2

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          See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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          vis

          1. inflection of vif (“alive”):
            1. oblique plural
            2. nominative singular

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            Inherited from Latin vītis (“vine”).

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            vis oblique singular, f (oblique plural viz, nominative singular viz, nominative plural vis)

            1. screw
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            Etymology

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            From Latin vītis.

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            vis f (plural vis)

            1. vine

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            Etymology 1

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            From Proto-Slavic *vьśь.

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            vis m

            1. all

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            This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

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            From Proto-Slavic *osь.

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            vis f

            1. axis

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            This noun needs an inflection-table template (g=f).

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            • Lehr-Spławiński, Tadeusz (1994), Słownik etymołogiczny języka drzewian połabskich. Zeszyt 6. (in Polish), Warszawa: Energia, pages 991-992.

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            vis

            1. masculine/feminine plural of vil

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            Etymology

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            Inherited from Latin vīsum.

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            vis n (plural visuri or vise)

            1. dream; vision

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            singular plural
            indefinite definite indefinite definite
            nominative-accusative vis visul visuri visurile
            genitive-dative vis visului visuri visurilor
            vocative visule visurilor
            singular plural
            indefinite definite indefinite definite
            nominative-accusative vis visul vise visele
            genitive-dative vis visului vise viselor
            vocative visule viselor
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            • вис (vis) (Moldavian spelling)

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            Etymology

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            Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vysь.

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            vȋs m inan (Cyrillic spelling ви̑с)

            1. (expressive, in the literature) height
              dići u vis ― to raise, elevate
              skok u vis ― high jump
            2. summit (of a hill)

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            Declension of vis
            singular plural
            nominative vȋs vísovi
            genitive visa visova
            dative visu visovima
            accusative vis visove
            vocative vise visovi
            locative visu visovima
            instrumental visom visovima

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            • “vis”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

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            Etymology 1

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            From Old Norse víss, from Proto-Germanic *wīsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weydstos (“knowledgeable”).

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            vis (comparative visare, superlative visast)

            1. wise
              en vis man
              a wise man
              gammal och vis
              old and wise

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            "De tre vise männen (“the three wise men”)" uses an archaic weak masculine plural form vise.

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            Inflection of vis
            Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
            common singular vis visare visast
            neuter singular vist visare visast
            plural visa visare visast
            masculine plural2 vise visare visast
            Definite positive comparative superlative
            masculine singular3 vise visare visaste
            all visa visare visaste

            1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
            2 Dated or archaic.
            3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

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            Etymology 2

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            From Old Norse vís, from Proto-Germanic *wīsą. Cognate with Old English wise, archaic English wise.

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            vis n

            1. (usually with på) a way (manner in which something is done or happens)
              Near-synonym: sätt
              Det fungerade inte, så vi får göra på något annat vis
              It didn't work, so we'll have to do it some other way
              Hon gör det på sitt eget lilla vis
              She does it in her own little way
              Det ska inte gå att göra mål på det viset
              It should be impossible to score like that [in that way]
              disco på finskt vis
              disco the Finnish way
              ... på så vis att ...
              ... in such wise that ... [archaic English – "... in such a way that ..."]

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            Declension of vis
            nominative genitive
            singular indefinite vis vis
            definite viset visets
            plural indefinite vis vis
            definite visen visens

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            Zealandic

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            Etymology

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            From Middle Dutch visch, from Old Dutch fisc, from Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *peysk-.

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            vis m (plural [please provide])

            1. fish
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