visas
Pronunciation: /ˈvʲɪ.sɐs/
“visas” is a Lithuanian word. Its 2 meanings in English:
determiner
pronoun
- everyone, all of them
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wišas; compare Latvian viss, Old Prussian wissa f sg (“all”), Proto-Slavic *vьśь. From Proto-Indo-European *wisos. This is likely to originally be a locative plural form of a root *wey-, which was later lexicalised; compare Sanskrit विश्व (viśva, “in all directions”). The Lithuanian -s-, as opposed to expected -š- per RUKI law is striking. The idea of visti (“multiply,…
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