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uisce

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish uisce,[1] from Proto-Celtic *udenskyos, from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥, *udéns.[2]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈiʃcə/[3][4], [ˈiʃcɪ][5]
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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uisce m (genitive singular uisce, nominative plural uiscí)

  1. water
    Synonym: dobhar
    • 2015 [2014], Will Collins, translated by Proinsias Mac a' Bhaird, edited by Maura McHugh, Amhrán na Mara (fiction; paperback), Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Howth, Dublin: Cartoon Saloon; Coiscéim, translation of Song of the Sea (in English), →ISBN, page 2:
      Tá rónta ag bogadaíl ar bharr an uisce.
      [original: Seals bob up and down in the water.]

Declension

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

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • English: whiskey

Mutation

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Mutated forms of uisce
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
uisce n-uisce huisce t-uisce

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

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “uisce”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*uden-sk-yo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 395
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 143
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 286, page 102
  5. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 46, page 24

Further reading

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *udenskyos, from Proto-Indo-European *wódr, *udéns.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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uisce m

  1. water
    Synonym: dobur

Inflection

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Masculine io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative uisce uisceL uisciL
Vocative uisci uisceL uisciu
Accusative uisceN uisceL uisciuH
Genitive uisciL uisceL uisceN
Dative uisciuL uiscib uiscib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Mutation

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Mutation of uisce
radical lenition nasalization
uisce
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged n-uisce

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

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*uden-sk-yo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 395

Further reading

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