viskio

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from English whiskey, whisky, from Irish uisce beatha (“whiskey”, literally “water of life”), a calque of Latin aqua vītae (“distilled alcohol”).

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): [visˈkio]
• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: vis‧ki‧o

Noun

viskio (accusative singular viskion, plural viskioj, accusative plural viskiojn)

1. whiskey, whisky