nixie
pronunciation
How to pronounce nixie in British English:
UK ['nɪksɪ]
How to pronounce nixie in American English:
US ['nɪksɪ]
Word Origin
- nixie (n.)
- "water fairy," 1816 (introduced by Sir Walter Scott), from German Nixie, from Old High German nihhussa "water sprite," fem. of nihhus, from Proto-Germanic *nikwiz (cognates: Old Norse nykr, Old English nicor "water spirit, water monster," also used to gloss hippopotamus; Grendel's mother in "Beowulf" was a nicor), perhaps from PIE *neigw- "to wash" (cognates: Sanskrit nenkti "washes," Greek nizo "I wash," Old Irish nigid "washes").
Example
- 1. Correction : the " tubes clock " doesn 't use leds but nixie tubes rather .
- 2. Reports that in 1996 ukraine member evgeny nixie er ban and his wife were shot in the donetsk airport .