beathuisce

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.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “beathuisce”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “beathuisce”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm