uisge

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Irish

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Noun

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uisge m (genitive singular uisge, nominative plural uisgí)

  1. Obsolete spelling of uisce.

Declension

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
uisge n-uisge huisge t-uisge
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • English: whisky

References

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  1. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “uisge”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 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