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Irish
Etymology
From beath- (“vital”) + uisce (“water”), a calque of Medieval Latin aqua vitae (“water of life”).
Noun
beathuisce m (genitive singular beathuisce)
- whiskey
- Synonyms: fuisce, uisce beatha
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| beathuisce
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bheathuisce
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mbeathuisce
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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