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whiskey

whiskey also whisky (hwĭsʹkē, wĭsʹ-) noun

plural whiskeys also whiskies

1. An alcoholic liquor distilled from grain, such as corn, rye, or barley, and containing approximately 40 to 50 percent ethyl alcohol by volume.

2. A drink of such liquor.

 

[From usquebaugh.]

Usage Note: Either whiskey or, less frequently, whisky can be used to refer to spirits distilled in the United States. Some writers prefer to reserve whisky for spirits distilled in Great Britain, but there is no widespread agreement on this point.

Word History: Whiskey, vodka, and water seem a potent, incompatible combination. However, all three words share a common Indo-European root, wed-,"water, wet." The differences between their present forms are partially explained by the fact that under certain conditions the Indo-European e could appear as o, or both e and o could disappear. Water is a native English word, which goes back by way of prehistoric Common Germanic watar to the Indo-European suffixed form wodō(r), with an o. Vodka is borrowed from Russian, in which vodka is a diminutive of voda,"water."Voda goes back to the Indo-European suffixed form woda-. Whiskey is a shortened form of usquebaugh, meaning "whiskey." English borrowed usquebaugh from Irish Gaelic uisce beatha and Scottish Gaelic uisge beatha, a compound whose members descend from Old Irish uisce,"water," and bethad,"of life," and mean literally "water of life."Uisce comes from the Indo-European form udskio- (without e or o).