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Bottles of whisky from Islay in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland, UK

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Attested since the early 18th century. Variant of usque, abbreviation of usquebaugh (compare obsolete whiskybae). From Scottish Gaelic uisge-beatha and Irish uisce beatha (water of life). Compare aquavit, from Latin aqua vītae (water of life). The name of the light carriage comes from the English verb to whisk.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈwɪski/, /ˈʍɪski/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪski
  • Hyphenation: whis‧ky

Noun edit

whisky (countable and uncountable, plural whiskies)

  1. (Scotland, Canada, Australia) An alcoholic liquor distilled from fermented grain and usually aged in oak barrels.
  2. (Scotland, Canada, Australia) A drink of this liquor.
    • 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.
  3. (historical) A light gig or carriage.
    Synonym: tim-whiskey
    • 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.
    • 1772, George Alexander Stevens, “The Portrait”, in Songs, Comic, and Satyrical[2], Oxford, page 202:
      Ye Ladies of Lapland who beesoms bestride,
      Or, pair’d in Witch Whiskeys, aslant the Moon slide;
    • 1797, Charlotte Lennox, chapter 4, in The History of Sir George Warrington[3], 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.

Usage notes edit

The regional spellings whisky and whiskey are also used worldwide to distinguish regional drinks, for example Scotch whisky, but Irish whiskey and bourbon whiskey.

Derived terms edit

Translations edit

Catalan edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English whisky.

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Noun edit

whisky m (plural whiskys or whiskies)

  1. whisky, whiskey

Czech edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English whisky.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈvɪskɪ]
  • Hyphenation: whi‧s‧ky

Noun edit

whisky f (indeclinable)

  1. whisky, whiskey

Further reading edit

  • whisky in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • whisky in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish edit

Noun edit

whisky c (singular definite whiskyen, plural indefinite whiskyer)

  1. whiskey

Declension edit

See also: Whisky and Whiskey

Dutch edit

Etymology edit

From English whisky.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋɪski/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: whis‧ky

Noun edit

whisky m (plural whisky's, diminutive whisky'tje n)

  1. (a glass of) whisky, whiskey

French edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English whisky.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

whisky m (plural whiskies or whiskys)

  1. whisky, whiskey
    Synonym: (rare) visqui

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Galician edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English whisky.

Noun edit

whisky m (plural whiskys)

  1. whisky, whiskey

Greenlandic edit

Etymology edit

From English whisky (probably via Danish whisky).

Noun edit

whisky (plural whiskyt)

  1. whisky

Further reading edit

Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

From English whisky.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈviski] (phonetic respelling: viszki)
  • Hyphenation: whis‧ky
  • Rhymes: -ki

Noun edit

whisky (plural whiskyk)

  1. whisky (USA, Ireland: whiskey)

Declension edit

Inflection of whisky
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
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. whiskym whiskyjeim
2nd person sing. whiskyd whiskyjeid
3rd person sing. whiskyje whiskyjei
1st person plural whiskynk whiskyjeink
2nd person plural whiskytek whiskyjeitek
3rd person plural whiskyjük whiskyjeik

Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈwi.ski/, /uˈi.ski/[1]
  • Rhymes: -iski
  • Hyphenation: whì‧sky

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)

  1. (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)

  1. whisky (a kind of light carriage)

Further reading edit

  • whisky2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

References edit

  1. ^ 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)

  1. (Jersey) whisky, whiskey

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Etymology edit

From English whisky, originally from Gaelic.

Noun edit

whisky m (definite singular whiskyen, indefinite plural whiskyer, definite plural whiskyene)

  1. whisky

References edit

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

 
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Etymology edit

From English whisky, originally from Gaelic.

Noun edit

whisky m (definite singular whiskyen, indefinite plural whiskyar, definite plural whiskyane)

  1. whisky

References edit

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Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from English whisky.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈwɨs.ki/, /ˈwis.ki/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɨski
  • Syllabification: whis‧ky

Noun edit

whisky f (indeclinable)

  1. whisky, whiskey

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 edit

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /uˈis.ki/ [ʊˈis.ki], (faster pronunciation) /ˈwis.ki/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /uˈiʃ.ki/ [ʊˈiʃ.ki], (faster pronunciation) /ˈwiʃ.ki/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /uˈis.ke/ [ʊˈis.ke], (faster pronunciation) /ˈwis.ke/

Noun edit

whisky m (plural whiskies)

  1. Alternative form of uísque

Romanian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French whisky, from English whisky.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈwi.ski/, /ˈuj.ski/

Noun edit

whisky n (plural whisky-uri)

  1. whisky, whiskey

Declension edit

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

  1. whisky, whiskey

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

  • IPA(key): /ˈwiski/ [ˈwis.ki]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -iski
  • Syllabification: whis‧ky

Noun edit

whisky m (plural whiskys)

  1. whisky (alcoholic liquor)

Further reading edit

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Etymology edit

From English whisky.

Noun edit

whisky c

  1. whisky, whiskey (alcoholic drink)

Declension edit

Declension of whisky 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative whisky whiskyn
Genitive whiskys whiskyns