whiskey

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• /ˈwɪski/
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• /ˈʍɪski/ without the wine–whine merger
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• rhymes with -ɪski
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• CMU ARPABET: W IH1 S K IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: HH W IH1 S K IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wed- Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥der. Proto-Celtic *udenskyos Old Irish uisce Irish uisce Proto-Indo-European *gweyh3- Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *gwih3wós Proto-Celtic *biwos Proto-Celtic *-tūts Proto-Celtic *biwotūts Old Irish bethu Irish beatha Medieval Latin aqua vītaecalq. Irish uisce beathabor. ▲ Old Irish uisce Scottish Gaelic uisge ▲ Old Irish bethu Scottish Gaelic beatha Medieval Latin aqua vītaecalq. Scottish Gaelic uisge-beathabor. English usquebaugh English usque English whiskey Variant of usque, abbreviation of usquebaugh, from Irish uisce beatha, calque of Medieval Latin aqua vītae (“water of life”). Compare akvavit, aquavit, aqua vitae, eau de vie, and water of life from the same source and vodka from a Russian diminutive for water in reference to the dilution of pure grain spirits.

From whisk + ey.

110 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: whisky — alcoholic drink
• Ahtna: konʼ tuʼ — alcoholic drink
• Alabama: okiimi — alcoholic drink
• Albanian: uiski — alcoholic drink
• Western Apache: túnchʼíʼ — alcoholic drink
• Arabic: وِيسْكِي (wiskī) — alcoholic drink
• Arabic: وِسْكِي (wiskī) — alcoholic drink
• Armenian: վիսկի (viski) — alcoholic drink
• Asturian: güisqui — alcoholic drink
• Azerbaijani: viski — alcoholic drink
• Belarusian: ві́скі (víski) — alcoholic drink
• Bengali: হুইস্কি (huiski) — alcoholic drink
• Breton: wiski — alcoholic drink
• Bulgarian: уи́ски (uíski) — alcoholic drink
• Burmese: ဝီစကီ (wica.ki) — alcoholic drink
• Catalan: whisky — alcoholic drink
• Chinese Cantonese: 威士忌酒 — alcoholic drink
• Chinese Cantonese: 威士忌 — alcoholic drink
• Chinese Mandarin: 威士忌酒 (wēishìjì jiǔ) — alcoholic drink
• Chinese Mandarin: 威士忌 (wēishìjì) — alcoholic drink
• Cornish: hwiski — alcoholic drink
• Czech: whisky — alcoholic drink
• Danish: whisky — alcoholic drink
• Dutch: whiskey — alcoholic drink
• Esperanto: viskio — alcoholic drink
• Estonian: viski — alcoholic drink
• Finnish: viski — alcoholic drink
• French: whisky — alcoholic drink
• Galician: whisky — alcoholic drink
• Georgian: ვისკი (visḳi) — alcoholic drink
• German: Whisky — alcoholic drink
• Greek: ουίσκι (ouíski) — alcoholic drink
• Greenlandic: whisky — alcoholic drink
• Hebrew: וִיסְקִי \ וויסקי (víski) — alcoholic drink
• Hindi: व्हिस्की (vhiskī) — alcoholic drink
• Hindi: विलायती पानी (vilāytī pānī) — alcoholic drink
• Hindi: मदिरा (madirā) — alcoholic drink
• Hindi: शराब (śarāb) — alcoholic drink
• Hungarian: whisky — alcoholic drink
• Icelandic: viskí — alcoholic drink
• Ido: wiskio — alcoholic drink
• Indonesian: wiski — alcoholic drink
• Irish: fuisce — alcoholic drink
• Irish: uisce beatha — alcoholic drink
• Italian: whisky — alcoholic drink
• Japanese: ウイスキー (uisukī) — alcoholic drink
• Japanese: ウィスキー (wisukī) — alcoholic drink
• Kazakh: виски (viski) — alcoholic drink
• Khmer: វីស្គី (viiskii) — alcoholic drink
• Korean: 위스키 (wiseuki) — alcoholic drink
• Northern Kurdish: wîskî — alcoholic drink
• Kyrgyz: виски (viski) — alcoholic drink
• Latvian: viskijs — alcoholic drink
• Lithuanian: viskis — alcoholic drink
• Lower Tanana: kwn' tu' — alcoholic drink
• Macedonian: виски (viski) — alcoholic drink
• Malay: wiski — alcoholic drink
• Maltese: wiski — alcoholic drink
• Manx: ushtey bea — alcoholic drink
• Māori: wihikē — alcoholic drink
• Eastern Mari: виски (viski) — alcoholic drink
• Central Melanau: wiski — alcoholic drink
• Coast Miwok: ʔómu líwa — alcoholic drink
• Mongolian: виски (viski) — alcoholic drink
• Norwegian Bokmål: whisky — alcoholic drink
• Norwegian Nynorsk: whisky — alcoholic drink
• Occitan: oísqui — alcoholic drink
• Pashto: ويسکي (viski) — alcoholic drink
• Iranian Persian: ویسْکی (viski) — alcoholic drink
• Polish: whisky — alcoholic drink
• Portuguese: uísque — alcoholic drink
• Portuguese: whisky — alcoholic drink
• Punjabi: ਵਿਸਕੀ (viskī) — alcoholic drink
• Romanian: whisky — alcoholic drink
• Russian: ви́ски (víski) — alcoholic drink
• Scottish Gaelic: uisge-beatha — alcoholic drink
• Serbo-Croatian: ви̏ски — alcoholic drink
• Serbo-Croatian: vȉski — alcoholic drink
• Sinhalese: විස්කි (wiski) — alcoholic drink
• Slovak: whisky — alcoholic drink
• Slovene: viski — alcoholic drink
• Spanish: whisky — alcoholic drink
• Spanish: wiski — alcoholic drink
• Spanish: güisqui — alcoholic drink
• Swahili: wiski — alcoholic drink
• Swedish: whisky — alcoholic drink
• Swedish: visky — alcoholic drink
• Tagalog: wiski — alcoholic drink
• Tajik: виски (visk-i) — alcoholic drink
• Thai: วิสกี้ (wís-gîi) — alcoholic drink
• Turkish: viski — alcoholic drink
• Turkmen: wiski — alcoholic drink
• Ukrainian: ві́скі (víski) — alcoholic drink
• Unami: wëshki — alcoholic drink
• Urdu: وْہِسْکی (vhiskī) — alcoholic drink
• Urdu: مَدِیرا (madīrā) — alcoholic drink
• Uyghur: ۋىسكى (wiski) — alcoholic drink
• Uzbek: viski — alcoholic drink
• Vietnamese: huých-ki — alcoholic drink
• Vietnamese: uytky — alcoholic drink
• Vietnamese: uýt-ki — alcoholic drink
• Vietnamese: uýt-xki — alcoholic drink
• Vietnamese: whiskey — alcoholic drink
• Vietnamese: whisky — alcoholic drink
• Volapük: viskin — alcoholic drink
• Volapük: filavin — alcoholic drink
• Volapük: lifavat — alcoholic drink
• Welsh: chwisgi — alcoholic drink
• Welsh: whisgi — alcoholic drink
• Yiddish: וויסקי (viski) — alcoholic drink