whisky
Slovak
/ˈʋis.ki/
noun
Definitions
- whisky, whiskey
Etymology
Borrowed from English whisky derived from Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic uisge-beatha (water of life) derived from Irish uisce beatha (water of life).
Origin
Irish (Donegal)
uisce beatha
Gloss
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
- Whisky German
- whisky Hungarian
- whisky Italian
- 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 Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- uisge beatha, uisge (beatha) Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- uisge-beatha Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- whisky Norman
- ဝီစကီ Burmese
- *udenskyos Proto-Celtic
- 威士忌 Chinese
- wiski Swahili
- 위스키 Korean
- វីស្គី Central Khmer
- whisky Kalaallisut, Greenlandic
- weski Abenaki