chwisgi
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Welsh[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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”)).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (North Wales, standard) IPA(key): /ˈχwɪsɡi/
- (North Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /ˈwɪsɡi/
- (South Wales, standard) IPA(key): /ˈhwɪsɡi/
- (South Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /ˈwɪsɡi/
Noun[edit]
chwisgi m (uncountable, not mutable)
Categories:
- Welsh terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Welsh terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *wed-
- Welsh terms borrowed from English
- Welsh terms derived from English
- Welsh terms derived from Irish
- Welsh terms derived from Scottish Gaelic
- Welsh terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Welsh terms with IPA pronunciation
- Welsh lemmas
- Welsh nouns
- Welsh uncountable nouns
- Welsh non-mutable terms
- Welsh masculine nouns
- cy:Alcoholic beverages