chwisgi

Welsh

Borrowing from English whiskey, from Irish uisce beatha and Scottish Gaelic uisge-beatha (literally “water of life”), calque of Latin aqua vitae, from Proto-Celtic *udenskyos (“water”) + Proto-Celtic *biwotos (“life”).

(North Wales, standard) IPA^(key): /ˈχwɪsɡi/
- (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪsɡi/
(South Wales, standard) IPA^(key): /ˈhwɪsɡi/
- (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪsɡi/

chwisgi m (uncountable)

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
chwisgi	unchanged	unchanged	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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