וויסקיי
Yiddish
noun
Definitions
- whiskey
Etymology
Borrowed from English whiskey derived from Irish uisce beatha (water of life) 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
- nonwhiskey English
- sweet whiskey English
- usque English
- whiskey English
- whiskeyana English
- whiskeyed English
- whiskeyful English
- whiskeyize English
- whiskeyjack English
- whiskeyless English
- whiskeylike English
- whisky English
- viski Finnish
- wiski Finnish
- aqua vitae Latin
- aqua vītae Latin
- whisky Italian
- whiskey Dutch, Flemish
- виски Russian
- *wed- Proto-Indo-European
- aqua vite Middle English
- fuisce Irish
- uisce beatha Irish
- ويسكي Arabic
- व्हिस्की Hindi
- wiski Cebuano
- chwisgi Welsh
- viski Turkish
- uisge beatha Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- uisge-beatha Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- wiski Tagalog
- ויסקי Hebrew (modern)
- viski Estonian
- *udenskyos Proto-Celtic
- віскі Ukrainian
- віскі Belarusian
- وہسکی Urdu