gis
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From the military term GIS, "general impression and shape".
Noun
[edit]gis (uncountable)
- (ornithology, slang) Alternative spelling of jizz
- 1988 April 8, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- Applied to birding, the gis approach involves a deemphasis of separate field marks in favor of the gestalt, the essence that tells us a dog is a dog […]
Etymology 2
[edit]Contraction
[edit]gis
- Alternative form of gi's.
Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]gis
- inflection of gissen:
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From German Gis (German key notation).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gis
Usage notes
[edit]Capitalized for the great octave or any octave below that, or in names of major keys; not capitalized for the small octave or any octave above that, or in names of minor keys.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of gis (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | gis | gisit | |
genitive | gisin | gisien | |
partitive | gisiä | gisejä | |
illative | gisiin | giseihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | gis | gisit | |
accusative | nom. | gis | gisit |
gen. | gisin | ||
genitive | gisin | gisien | |
partitive | gisiä | gisejä | |
inessive | gisissä | giseissä | |
elative | gisistä | giseistä | |
illative | gisiin | giseihin | |
adessive | gisillä | giseillä | |
ablative | gisiltä | giseiltä | |
allative | gisille | giseille | |
essive | gisinä | giseinä | |
translative | gisiksi | giseiksi | |
abessive | gisittä | giseittä | |
instructive | — | gisein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
French
[edit]Verb
[edit]gis
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Verb
[edit]gis
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic جِبْس (jibs, “gypsum”), from Latin gypsum (“plaster”), from Ancient Greek γύψος (gúpsos). Doublet of yeso, which was inherited.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gis m (plural gises)
Further reading
[edit]- “gis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
- gis on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
Wolof
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Verb
[edit]gis
- to see
References
[edit]Omar Ka (2018) Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, →ISBN, page 100
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- Rhymes:Dutch/ɪs
- Rhymes:Dutch/ɪs/1 syllable
- Dutch non-lemma forms
- Dutch verb forms
- Finnish terms derived from German
- Finnish 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Finnish/is
- Rhymes:Finnish/is/1 syllable
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- fi:Music
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