chwisgi

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Welsh

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Etymology

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Borrowing from English whisky, from Irish uisce beatha and Scottish Gaelic uisge-beatha (literally water of life), calque of Latin aqua vitae, from Proto-Celtic *udenskyos (water) + Proto-Celtic *biwotos (life) (see *biwos (alive)).

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Noun

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chwisgi m (uncountable, not mutable)

  1. whisky