missier

From older Sicilian misseri, from Old Occitan meser. Cognate with French monsieur, obsolete Italian messere. Displaced native Maltese bu.

• IPA^(key): /mɪsˈsɪːr/

missier m (plural missirijiet or misserijiet, feminine omm)

1. father

   Synonym: (obsolete) bu

   • c. 2015, Il-Bibbja : il-Kotba Mqaddsa, 5th edition, Valletta: Ghaqda Biblika Maltija, →OCLC, Il-Ktieb tal-Ġenesi 19:32:

     Ejja nisqu l-inbid lil missierna u norqdu miegħu, u nżommu n-nisel ħaj minn missierna.

     New International Version translation: Let’s get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father.”

2. (chiefly in the plural) forefather, ancestor

   Synonym: antenat

   Dawn id-drawwiet writniehom mingħand missirijietna.

   We have inherited these customs from our forefathers.