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whisky

English

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Scotch whisky and with a snifter
 
Bottles of Scotch whisky at Charlie's Tavern, New York (c. 1947)
 
Oak barrels waiting for processing at the Whyte & MacKay Distillery in Invergordon, Scotland.

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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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

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whisky (countable and uncountable, plural whiskies)

  1. (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.
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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.

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Etymology 2

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From whisk +‎ -y.

Noun

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whisky (plural whiskies)

  1. (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.
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Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English whisky.

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whisky m (plural whiskys or whiskies)

  1. whisky, whiskey

Czech

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English whisky.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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whisky f (indeclinable)

  1. whisky, whiskey

Further reading

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  • “whisky”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
  • “whisky”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

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Noun

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whisky c (singular definite whiskyen, plural indefinite whiskyer)

  1. whiskey

Declension

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Declension of whisky
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative whisky whiskyen whiskyer whiskyerne
genitive whiskys whiskyens whiskyers whiskyernes
See also: Whisky and Whiskey

Dutch

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Etymology

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From English whisky.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

  1. (a glass of) whisky, whiskey

French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English whisky.

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whisky m (plural whiskies or whiskys)

  1. whisky, whiskey
    Synonym: (rare) visqui

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Galician

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English whisky.

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whisky m (plural whiskys)

  1. whisky, whiskey

Greenlandic

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Etymology

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From English whisky (probably via Danish whisky).

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whisky (plural whiskyt)

  1. whisky

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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From English whisky.

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

Noun

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whisky (plural whiskyk)

  1. whisky (USA, Ireland: whiskey)

Declension

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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

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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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

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whisky m (invariable)

  1. (countable and uncountable) whisky, whiskey

Further reading

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  • whisky1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

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Unadapted borrowing from English whisky, derived from whisk.

Noun

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whisky m (invariable)

  1. whisky (a kind of light carriage)

Further reading

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

References

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  1. ^ whisky in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Norman

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Etymology

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From English whisky, ultimately from Old Irish uisce.

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whisky m (plural whiskys)

  1. (Jersey) whisky, whiskey

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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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)

  1. whisky

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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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)

  1. whisky

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Polish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English whisky.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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whisky f (indeclinable)

  1. whisky, whiskey

Further reading

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  • whisky in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • whisky in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English whisky.

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  • (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

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whisky m (plural whiskies)

  1. Alternative form of uísque

Romanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French whisky, from English whisky.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈwi.ski/, /ˈuj.ski/

Noun

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whisky n (plural whisky-uri)

  1. whisky, whiskey

Declension

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Declension of whisky
singular plural
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

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Etymology

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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

  1. whisky, whiskey

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Further reading

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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

Spanish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English whisky.

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whisky m (plural whiskys)

  1. whisky (alcoholic liquor)

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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.

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Swedish

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Etymology

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From English whisky.

Noun

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whisky c

  1. whisky, whiskey (alcoholic drink)

Declension

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