uisge-beatha
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See also: uisge beatha
Scottish Gaelic
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From uisge (“water”) + beatha (“life”) as a calque of Medieval Latin aqua vitae (“water of life”), from Proto-Celtic *udenskyos (“water”) and *biwotos (“life”), from *biwos (“alive”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]uisge-beatha m (genitive singular uisge-bheatha, plural uisgeachan-beatha)
Mutation
[edit]radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
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uisge-beatha | n-uisge-beatha | h-uisge-beatha | t-uisge-beatha |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Descendants
[edit]- English: → usquebaugh, water of life, whisky
Categories:
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *wed-
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Medieval Latin
- Scottish Gaelic terms calqued from Medieval Latin
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷeyh₃-
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Old Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Scottish Gaelic lemmas
- Scottish Gaelic nouns
- Scottish Gaelic multiword terms
- Scottish Gaelic masculine nouns
- gd:Distilled beverages