viskio

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from English whiskey, whisky, from Irish uisce beatha (“whiskey”, literally “water of life”), a calque of Latin aqua vītae (“distilled alcohol”).

Pronunciation
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  • IPA(key): [visˈkio]
  • Rhymes: -io
  • Hyphenation: vis‧ki‧o

Noun

viskio (accusative singular viskion, plural viskioj, accusative plural viskiojn)

  1. whiskey, whisky
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