tissu

Inherited from Old French tissu, participle of tistre (modern tisser). Compare Italian tessuto.

• IPA^(key): /ti.sy/

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tissu m (plural tissus)

1. fabric
2. (anatomy) tissue

• “tissu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• tissew, tisshew, tisshue, tissue, tusshewe, tussu, tysshew, tysshewe, tyssew, tyssu, tyssue

Borrowed from Old French tissu, past participle of tistre.

Forms with /ʃ/ do not reflect palatalisation of /s/ (as in modern English); instead, they exist because Old French /s(s)/ was perceived as being phonetically closer to Middle English /ʃ/ than to /s/.

• IPA^(key): /tiˈsiu̯/, /tiˈʃiu̯/
• (with stress retraction) IPA^(key): /ˈtisiu̯/, /ˈtiʃiu̯/

tissu

1. tissue (silk fabric)
2. A strip of such fabric.

• English: tissue
• Scots: tishie

• “tissheu, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.