vissen

From Old Norse visinn; see visne (“to wither”).

vissen (neuter vissent, plural and definite singular attributive visne)

1. withered
2. (informal) drunk

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fuld

   • 2017, Colleen Hoover, translated by Dorte Andersson, Det ender med os, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:

     ”Hvordan skal jeg forsøge at gøre dig tyk i aften, hvis du ikke er lidt vissen?”

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2014, Samuel Bjørk, Der hænger en engel alene i skoven, Rosinante & Co, →ISBN:

     Hun begyndte at blive lidt vissen nu, det gjorde det lettere at tænke.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪ.sə(n)/

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• Rhymes: -ɪsən

From Middle Dutch visschen, from Old Dutch *fiskon, from Proto-West Germanic *fiskōn. Equivalent to vis +‎ -en.

vissen

1. to fish, to try to catch fish
2. to fish (trying to get information)

• Jersey Dutch: fässe
• Negerhollands: fes, fis
• →? Sranan Tongo: fisi
  • → Lokono: fishidin

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vissen

1. plural of vis

From Old Norse visinn. Cognate with Danish vissen and Swedish vissen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋîsen/

vissen (neuter singular vissent, definite singular and plural visne)

1. withered

• “vissen” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• visen

From Old Norse visinn. Cognate with Danish vissen and Swedish vissen.

• IPA^(key): /²ʋɪsːn̩/

vissen (neuter singular visse or vissent, definite singular and plural visne, comparative visnare, indefinite superlative visnast, definite superlative visnaste)

1. withered

• “vissen” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

vissen (comparative vissnare, superlative vissnast)

1. withered, wilted (of a plant, or figuratively of humans and animals and things)
2. (figuratively) under the weather

   Jag känner mig lite vissen

   I'm feeling a bit under the weather

• vissna (“to wilt, to wither”)

• vissen in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vissen in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vissen in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)