whisky
English edit
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- whiskey (Ireland, US, England)
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.
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whisky (countable and uncountable, plural whiskies)
- (Scotland, Canada, Australia) An alcoholic liquor distilled from fermented grain and usually aged in oak barrels.
- (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.
- (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.
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The regional spellings whisky and whiskey are also used worldwide to distinguish regional drinks, for example Scotch whisky, but Irish whiskey and bourbon whiskey.
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whisky f (indeclinable)
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whisky c (singular definite whiskyen, plural indefinite whiskyer)
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common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | whisky | whiskyen | whiskyer | whiskyerne |
genitive | whiskys | whiskyens | whiskyers | whiskyernes |
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whisky m (plural whisky's, diminutive whisky'tje n)
- (a glass of) whisky, whiskey
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whisky m (plural whiskies or whiskys)
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- “whisky”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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whisky m (plural whiskys)
Greenlandic edit
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From English whisky (probably via Danish whisky).
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whisky (plural whiskyt)
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- whisky in Katersat
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whisky (plural whiskyk)
- whisky (USA, Ireland: whiskey)
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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 |
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 |
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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”).
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whisky m (invariable)
- (countable and uncountable) whisky, whiskey
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- whisky1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2 edit
Unadapted borrowing from English whisky, derived from whisk.
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whisky m (invariable)
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- whisky2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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- ^ whisky in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Norman edit
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From English whisky, ultimately from Old Irish uisce.
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whisky m (plural whiskys)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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From English whisky, originally from Gaelic.
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whisky m (definite singular whiskyen, indefinite plural whiskyer, definite plural whiskyene)
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- “whisky” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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From English whisky, originally from Gaelic.
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whisky m (definite singular whiskyen, indefinite plural whiskyar, definite plural whiskyane)
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- “whisky” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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Unadapted borrowing from English whisky.
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whisky f (indeclinable)
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Unadapted borrowing from English whisky.
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whisky m (plural whiskies)
- Alternative form of uísque
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Borrowed from French whisky, from English whisky.
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whisky n (plural whisky-uri)
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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
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Borrowed from English whisky, from Scottish Gaelic uisge-beatha and Irish uisce beatha (“water of life”).
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whisky f nondeclinable
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- “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
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Unadapted borrowing from English whisky.
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whisky m (plural whiskys)
- whisky (alcoholic liquor)
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- “whisky”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- whisky on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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whisky c
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Declension of whisky | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | whisky | whiskyn | — | — |
Genitive | whiskys | whiskyns | — | — |