whisky
See also: Whisky
English

Alternative forms
- whiskey (Ireland, US)
Etymology
Attested since the early 18th century. Variant of usque, abbreviation of usquebaugh (compare obsolete whiskybae). From Scottish Gaelic uisge-beatha and Irish uisce beatha (“water of life”). Compare aquavit, from Latin aqua vitae (“water of life”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈwɪski/, /ˈʍɪski/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: whis‧ky
Noun
whisky (countable and uncountable, plural whiskies)
- (chiefly Britain and Canada) An alcoholic liquor distilled from fermented grain and usually aged in oak barrels.
- (chiefly Britain and Canada) A drink of this liquor.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 2, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.
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Usage notes
The regional spellings whisky and whiskey are also used world-wide to distinguish regional drinks, for example Scotch whisky, but bourbon whiskey.
Catalan
Czech
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʋɪski/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: whis‧ky
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wis.ki/
Audio (file)
Synonyms
- visqui (rare)
Further reading
- “whisky” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Greenlandic
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈviski]
- Hyphenation: whis‧ky
Declension
Inflection of whisky | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | whisky | whiskyk |
accusative | whiskyt | whiskyket |
dative | whiskynek | whiskyknek |
instrumental | whiskyvel | whiskykkel |
causal-final | whiskyért | whiskykért |
translative | whiskyvé | whiskykké |
terminative | whiskyig | whiskykig |
essive-formal | whiskyként | whiskykként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | whiskyben | whiskykben |
superessive | whiskyn | whiskyken |
adessive | whiskynél | whiskyknél |
illative | whiskybe | whiskykbe |
sublative | whiskyre | whiskykre |
allative | whiskyhez | whiskykhez |
elative | whiskyből | whiskykből |
delative | whiskyről | whiskykről |
ablative | whiskytől | whiskyktől |
Possessive forms of whisky | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | whiskym | whiskyjeim |
2nd person sing. | whiskyd | whiskyjeid |
3rd person sing. | whiskyje | whiskyjei |
1st person plural | whiskynk | whiskyjeink |
2nd person plural | whiskytek | whiskyjeitek |
3rd person plural | whiskyjük | whiskyjeik |
Norman
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈwɨs.kʲi/, /ˈwis.kʲi/
Declension
Indeclinable.
Portuguese
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈuj.ski/, /ˈwi.ski/
Declension
declension of whisky
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) whisky | whisky-ul | (niște) whisky-uri | whisky-urile |
genitive/dative | (unui) whisky | whisky-ului | (unor) whisky-uri | whisky-urilor |
vocative | whisky-ule | whisky-urilor |
Slovak
Etymology
Borrowed from English whisky, from Scottish Gaelic uisge-beatha and Irish uisce beatha (“water of life”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʋis.ki/
Derived terms
- whiskový
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from English whisky, from Scottish Gaelic uisge beatha and Irish uisce beatha (“water of life”). More at whisky.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈwiski/; IPA(key): /ˈɡwiski/
Swedish
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