fuisce

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English whiskey, from Irish uisce beatha.

Pronunciation

Noun

fuisce m (genitive singular fuisce)

  1. whiskey
    Synonyms: beathuisce, uisce beatha

Declension

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

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of fuisce
radical lenition eclipsis
fuisce fhuisce bhfuisce

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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