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Irish
Etymology 1
From Old Irish uiscide (“like water, watery, aqueous”, adjective). By surface analysis, uisce (“water”) + -í (adjectival suffix).
Adjective
uiscí
- (chemistry) aqueous
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
uiscí m pl
- plural of uisce
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
uiscí
- inflection of uisceach:
- genitive singular feminine
- comparative degree
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “uiscí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “uiscide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- “uiscí”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024