uisge

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

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *wed-

Proto-Indo-European *-r̥

Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥der.

Proto-Celtic *udenskyos

Old Irish uisce

Scottish Gaelic uisge

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɯʃkʲə/
• (Lewis) IPA^(key): /ɯʃkʲ/
  • (Ness) IPA^(key): [iʃkʲ]
  • (Bernera) IPA^(key): [ɯʃkʲ]
  • (Lochs) IPA^(key): [ɨʃkʲ]
• (Jura, Gigha) IPA^(key): /ˈɯʃtʲə/

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

• buabhall uisge (“water buffalo”)
• coille-uisge (“rain forest”)
• creagag-uisge (“European perch”)
• dath-uisge (“watercolour”)
• fìor-uisge (“fresh water; spring water”)
• gobha-uisge (“dipper (bird)”)
• iolair-uisge (“osprey”)
• muileann-uisge (“water mill”)
• uisge-adhair (“rainwater”)
• uisge-beatha (“whisky”)
• uisge-coisrigte (“holy water”)
• uisge-dhìonach (“waterproof”)
• uisge-searbhaig (“acid rain”)
• uisge-stiùireach (“wake (behind boat)”)

Descendants

• → English: whisky

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “uisge”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[3], 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