beathuisce

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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)

  1. whiskey
    Synonyms: fuisce, uisce beatha

Declension

Declension of beathuisce (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative beathuisce
vocative a bheathuisce
genitive beathuisce
dative beathuisce
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an beathuisce
genitive an bheathuisce
dative leis an mbeathuisce
don bheathuisce

Mutation

Mutated forms of beathuisce
radical lenition eclipsis
beathuisce bheathuisce mbeathuisce

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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