uisge

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Irish

Noun

uisge m (genitive singular uisge, nominative plural uisgí)

  1. Obsolete spelling of uisce.

Declension

Declension of uisge (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative uisge uisgí
vocative a uisge a uisgí
genitive uisge uisgí
dative uisge uisgí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an t-uisge na huisgí
genitive an uisge na n-uisgí
dative leis an uisge
don uisge 		leis na huisgí

Mutation

Mutated forms of uisge
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
uisge n-uisge huisge t-uisge

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish uisce, from Proto-Celtic *udenskyos, from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥.

Pronunciation

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Noun

uisge m (genitive singular uisge, plural uisgeachan)

  1. water
  2. rain, shower
    Tha an t-uisge ann. ― It is raining.
  3. river, stream
    Synonyms: abhainn, sruth
  4. (rare) wave

Declension

Declension of uisge (class IId masculine noun)
indefinite
singular plural
nominative uisge uisgeachan
genitive uisge uisgeachan
dative uisge uisgeachan
definite
singular plural
nominative (an) uisge (na) h-uisgeachan
genitive (an) h-uisge (nan) uisgeachan
dative (an) uisge (na) h-uisgeachan
vocative uisge uisgeachan

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → English: whisky

References

  1. ^ Donald A. Morrison (2020) Modularity and stratification in phonology: Evidence from Scottish Gaelic (Thesis)‎, Manchester: University of Manchester
  2. ^ Donald A. Morrison (2020) Modularity and stratification in phonology: Evidence from Scottish Gaelic (Thesis)‎, Manchester: University of Manchester
  3. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “uisge”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “uisce”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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