uisge

Irish

Noun

uisge m (genitive singular uisge, nominative plural uisgí)

1. Obsolete spelling of uisce

Declension

Declension of uisge

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative uisge uisgí Vocative a uisge a uisgí Genitive uisge uisgí Dative uisge uisgí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-uisge na huisgí Genitive an uisge na n-uisgí Dative leis an uisge don uisge leis na huisgí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
uisge	n-uisge	huisge	t-uisge
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish uisce, from Proto-Celtic *udenskyos, from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɯʃkʲə/

Noun

uisge m (genitive singular uisge, plural uisgeachan)

1. water
2. rain, shower

   Tha an t-uisge ann. ― It is raining.

3. river, stream

   Synonyms: abhainn, sruth

4. (rare) wave

Declension

Declension of uisge (class IId masculine noun)

Indefinite
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	uisge	uisgeachan
Genitive	uisge	uisgeachan
Dative	uisge	uisgeachan
Definite
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	(an) t-uisge	(na) h-uisgeachan
Genitive	(an) uisge	(nan) uisgeachan
Dative	(an) uisge	(na) h-uisgeachan
Vocative	(a) uisge	(a) uisgeachan

Derived terms

• buabhall uisge (“water buffalo”)
• coille-uisge (“rain forest”)
• creagag-uisge (“European perch”)
• dath-uisge (“watercolour”)
• fìor-uisge (“fresh water; spring water”)
• gobha-uisge (“dipper (bird)”)
• iolair-uisge (“osprey”)
• muileann-uisge (“water mill”)
• uisge-adhair (“rainwater”)
• uisge-beatha (“whisky”)
• uisge-coisrigte (“holy water”)
• uisge-dhìonach (“waterproof”)
• uisge-searbhaig (“acid rain”)
• uisge-stiùireach (“wake (behind boat)”)

 

Descendants

• → English: whisky

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “uisge”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “uisce”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language