whiskey
French
noun
Definitions
- whiskey drink
Etymology
Borrowed from English whisky derived from Irish uisce beatha (water of life) derived from Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic uisge-beatha (water of life) root from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (water, wet).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*wed-
Gloss
water, wet
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
水
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- usque English
- whiskey English
- whiskified English
- whisky English
- whiskyless English
- aqua vitae Latin
- utrem Latin
- Whisky German
- whisky Hungarian
- whisky Italian
- whisky Dutch, Flemish
- whisky French
- во́дка Russian
- whisky Spanish, Castilian
- ὑδρο- Ancient Greek
- ὕδωρ Ancient Greek
- *u-né-d-ti, *u-n-d-énti Proto-Indo-European
- *udreh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *udréh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *udrós Proto-Indo-European
- *wed- Proto-Indo-European
- *wedro- Proto-Indo-European
- *wédōr Proto-Indo-European
- *wódr̥ Proto-Indo-European
- whisky Norwegian Bokmål
- whisky Portuguese
- *waskaną Proto-Germanic
- *wet Proto-Germanic
- *wētijaną Proto-Germanic
- 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
- wâter Middle Dutch
- uisce Old Irish
- uisge beatha Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- uisge beatha, uisge (beatha) Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- uisge-beatha Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- whisky Norman
- ဝီစကီ Burmese
- *biwotos Proto-Celtic
- *udenskyos Proto-Celtic
- *utnio- Proto-Celtic
- 威士忌 Chinese
- whisky Slovak
- wiski Swahili
- 위스키 Korean
- វីស្គី Central Khmer
- *udrijā Proto-Albanian
- *wandō Proto-Balto-Slavic
- whisky Kalaallisut, Greenlandic
- weski Abenaki