whisky
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Variant of usque, abbreviation of usquebaugh (compare obsolete whiskybae), from Scottish Gaelic uisge-beatha (“water of life”), calque of Medieval Latin aqua vitae. Compare akvavit, aquavit, aqua vitae, eau de vie, and water of life from the same source.
Noun
[edit]whisky (countable and uncountable, plural whiskies)
- (Scotland, Canada, Australia) Alternative form of whiskey, an alcoholic liquor distilled from fermented grain, usually aged in oak barrels, (particularly) Scotch; a drink of this liquor. [early 18th century]
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.
Usage notes
[edit]The regional spellings whisky and whiskey (from the Irish form of the same Gaelic word) are used worldwide to distinguish regional drinks, for example Scotch whisky, but Irish whiskey and bourbon whiskey.
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]whisky (plural whiskies)
- (historical) Alternative form of whiskey, a light gig or carriage.
- 1768, Ignatius Sancho, letter to Mr. M—, in Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, London: J. Nichols, 3rd edition, 1784, pp. 7-8,[1]
- Look into old age, you will see avarice joined to poverty—letchery, gout, impotency, like three monkeys, or London bucks, in a one-horse whisky, driving to the Devil.
- 1797, Charlotte Lennox, chapter 4, in The History of Sir George Warrington[2], volume 1, London: J. Bell, page 46:
- At the appointed time Mr. Kettering’s one-horse chaise, or rather whisky, drove up to the door; for, as it was principally intended for him to visit his patients, when disinclined to mount his horse, it was built in the lightest manner, and without a head, that it might move with the greater expedition.
- 1768, Ignatius Sancho, letter to Mr. M—, in Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, London: J. Nichols, 3rd edition, 1784, pp. 7-8,[1]
Derived terms
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]whisky m (plural whiskys or whiskies)
Czech
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]whisky f (indeclinable)
Further reading
[edit]- “whisky”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
- “whisky”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
Danish
[edit]Noun
[edit]whisky c (singular definite whiskyen, plural indefinite whiskyer)
Declension
[edit]common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | whisky | whiskyen | whiskyer | whiskyerne |
genitive | whiskys | whiskyens | whiskyers | whiskyernes |
Dutch
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]whisky m (plural whisky's, diminutive whisky'tje n)
- (a glass of) whisky, whiskey
French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]whisky m (plural whiskies or whiskys)
Further reading
[edit]- “whisky”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]whisky m (plural whiskys)
Greenlandic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English whisky (probably via Danish whisky).
Noun
[edit]whisky (plural whiskyt)
Further reading
[edit]- whisky in Katersat
Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]whisky (plural whiskyk)
- whisky (USA, Ireland: whiskey)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of whisky | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | whisky | whiskyk |
accusative | whiskyt | whiskyket |
dative | whiskynek | whiskyknek |
instrumental | whiskyvel | whiskykkel |
causal-final | whiskyért | whiskykért |
translative | whiskyvé | whiskykké |
terminative | whiskyig | whiskykig |
essive-formal | whiskyként | whiskykként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | whiskyben | whiskykben |
superessive | whiskyn | whiskyken |
adessive | whiskynél | whiskyknél |
illative | whiskybe | whiskykbe |
sublative | whiskyre | whiskykre |
allative | whiskyhez | whiskykhez |
elative | whiskyből | whiskykből |
delative | whiskyről | whiskykről |
ablative | whiskytől | whiskyktől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
whiskyé | whiskyké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
whiskyéi | whiskykéi |
Possessive forms of whisky | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | whiskym | whiskyjeim (or whiskyim) |
2nd person sing. | whiskyd | whiskyjeid (or whiskyid) |
3rd person sing. | whiskyje | whiskyjei (or whiskyi) |
1st person plural | whiskynk | whiskyjeink (or whiskyink) |
2nd person plural | whiskytek | whiskyjeitek (or whiskyitek) |
3rd person plural | whiskyjük | whiskyjeik (or whiskyik) |
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English whisky, alternative form of usque, shortening of usquebaugh, from Irish uisce beatha (literally “water of life”) and Scottish Gaelic uisge beatha (literally “water of life”).
Noun
[edit]whisky m (invariable)
- (countable and uncountable) whisky, whiskey
Further reading
[edit]- whisky1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English whisky, derived from whisk.
Noun
[edit]whisky m (invariable)
Further reading
[edit]- whisky2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
References
[edit]- ^ whisky in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English whisky, ultimately from Old Irish uisce.
Noun
[edit]whisky m (plural whiskys)
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English whisky, originally from Gaelic.
Noun
[edit]whisky m (definite singular whiskyen, indefinite plural whiskyer, definite plural whiskyene)
References
[edit]- “whisky” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English whisky, originally from Gaelic.
Noun
[edit]whisky m (definite singular whiskyen, indefinite plural whiskyar, definite plural whiskyane)
References
[edit]- “whisky” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English whisky.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]whisky f (indeclinable)
Further reading
[edit]- whisky in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- whisky in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English whisky.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]whisky m (plural whiskies)
- Alternative form of uísque
Romanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French whisky, from English whisky.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]whisky n (plural whisky-uri)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) whisky | whisky-ul | (niște) whisky-uri | whisky-urile |
genitive/dative | (unui) whisky | whisky-ului | (unor) whisky-uri | whisky-urilor |
vocative | whisky-ule | whisky-urilor |
Slovak
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English whisky, from Scottish Gaelic uisge-beatha and Irish uisce beatha (“water of life”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]whisky f nondeclinable
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “whisky”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Spanish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English whisky.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]whisky m (plural whiskys)
- whisky (alcoholic liquor)
Usage notes
[edit]According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
[edit]- “whisky”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
whisky on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]whisky c
Declension
[edit]Declension of whisky | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | whisky | whiskyn | — | — |
Genitive | whiskys | whiskyns | — | — |
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