chwisgi

Welsh

Alternative forms

• wisgi

Etymology

Borrowing from English whisky, from Irish uisce beatha and Scottish Gaelic uisge-beatha (literally “water of life”), calque of Latin aqua vitae, from Proto-Celtic *udenskyos (“water”) + Proto-Celtic *biwotos (“life”) (see *biwos (“alive”)).

Pronunciation

• (North Wales, standard) IPA^(key): /ˈχwɪsɡi/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪsɡi/
• (South Wales, standard) IPA^(key): /ˈhwɪsɡi/
  • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪsɡi/

Noun

chwisgi m (uncountable, not mutable)

1. whisky