whisky
Polish
noun
Definitions
- whisky, whiskey
Etymology
Borrowed from English whisky derived from Irish uisce beatha (water of life) derived from Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic uisge-beatha (water of life) derived from Proto-Celtic *udenskyos (water) derived from Latin aqua vitae (spirits, water of life).
Origin
Latin
aqua vitae
Gloss
spirits, water of life
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
- Aquavit German
- Whisky German
- whisky Hungarian
- whisky Italian
- whisky Dutch, Flemish
- whiskey French
- whisky French
- whisky Spanish, Castilian
- *wed- Proto-Indo-European
- *wódr̥ Proto-Indo-European
- whisky Norwegian Bokmål
- whisky Portuguese
- whisky Swedish
- ウイスキー Japanese
- whisky Norwegian Nynorsk
- uisce beatha Irish
- akvavit Danish
- whisky Danish
- whisky Czech
- whisky Catalan, Valencian
- viskí Icelandic
- whisky Galician
- วิสกี้ Thai
- 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
- 威士忌 Chinese
- whisky Slovak
- wiski Swahili
- 위스키 Korean
- វីស្គី Central Khmer
- whisky Kalaallisut, Greenlandic
- weski Abenaki