uiscí

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish uiscide (“like water, watery, aqueous”, adjective); synchronically analyzable as uisce (“water”) +‎ -í.

Adjective

uiscí

1. (chemistry) aqueous

Alternative forms

• uiscidhe (superseded)

Derived terms

• bruthuiscí (“aqueo-igneous”, adjective)

Etymology 2

Noun

uiscí m pl

1. plural of uisce

Mutation

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

Further reading

• "uiscí" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “uiscide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language