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Yiddish
Etymology
Borrowed from English whisky, whiskey (possibly via German Whisky and/or Russian ви́ски (víski)), from Irish uisce beatha, Scottish Gaelic uisge-beatha (literally “water of life”), from Proto-Celtic *udenskyos (“water”) + *biwotos (“life”), from *biwos (“alive”), calque of Latin aqua vitae.
Noun
וויסקי • (viski) m, plural וויסקיס (viskis)
- whisky, whiskey
Usage notes
- Note the masculine gender in current use in German, but now considered archaic in Russian.
See also
References
- Justus van de Kamp et al., “װיסקי” in Jiddisch-Nederlands Woordenboek , Amsterdam: Stichting Jiddische Lexicografie, 1987-present (ongoing). .