Whisky
German (Berlin)
/ˈvɪski/
noun
Definitions
- whisky alcoholic drink
Etymology
Borrowed from English whisky derived from Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic uisge-beatha (water of life).
Origin
Gaelic (Scots)
uisge-beatha
Gloss
water of life
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- whiskified English
- whisky English
- whiskyless English
- aqua vitae Latin
- whisky Hungarian
- whisky Dutch, Flemish
- whiskey French
- whisky French
- whisky Spanish, Castilian
- *wed- Proto-Indo-European
- whisky Norwegian Bokmål
- whisky Portuguese
- whisky Swedish
- ウイスキー Japanese
- whisky Polish
- whisky Norwegian Nynorsk
- uisce beatha Irish
- whisky Danish
- whisky Czech
- whisky Catalan, Valencian
- viskí Icelandic
- whisky Galician
- วิสกี้ Thai
- uisce Old Irish
- uisge beatha, uisge (beatha) Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- uisge-beatha Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- whisky Norman
- ဝီစကီ Burmese
- *udenskyos Proto-Celtic
- 威士忌 Chinese
- whisky Slovak
- wiski Swahili
- 위스키 Korean
- វីស្គី Central Khmer
- whisky Kalaallisut, Greenlandic
- weski Abenaki