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Whisky, on the other hand, comes from the Gaelic word uisge which means “water” and is pronounced “oosh-kyuh”.

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Irish word uisge or whiskey, for whiskey, though generally serving to denote a spirituous liquor, in great vogue amongst the Irish, means simply water.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

Whisky, on the other hand, comes from the Gaelic word uisge which means "water" and is pronounced "oosh-kyuh".

Rambles at starchamber.com 2009

And remember if you ever find find yourself newly elected, alone and lonely, bladdered and soon to be a dad in a hotel bar and you spy two lovelies: Bàthaidh uisge teth teine.

Archive 2007-04-08 2007

And he was not referring unto the makers of a form of uisge beatha named Laphroaig.

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Two hundred years later, the Catalan scholar Arnaud of Villanova dubbed the active principle of wine aqua vitae, the “water of life,” a term that lives on in Scandinavia (aquavit), in France (eau de vie), and in English: whisky is the anglicized version of the Gaelic for “water of life,” uisge beatha or usquebaugh, which is what Irish and Scots monks called their distilled barley beer.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

Two hundred years later, the Catalan scholar Arnaud of Villanova dubbed the active principle of wine aqua vitae, the “water of life,” a term that lives on in Scandinavia (aquavit), in France (eau de vie), and in English: whisky is the anglicized version of the Gaelic for “water of life,” uisge beatha or usquebaugh, which is what Irish and Scots monks called their distilled barley beer.

On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

Goin 'to feed his anger with a wee drop of the uisge-beatha, no doubt.

Omnibus Lackey, Mercedes 1993

Comes from _uisge-beatha_, and by some bloody peculiar coincidence, that also means 'water of life.'

Unwise Child Randall Garrett 1957

Possession of a Gaelic Bible (biobull) served as a talisman and, together with two other elements of domestic Highland culture -- bagpipes (piob mhor) and locally-distilled whisky (uisge beatha) -- not infrequently adorned the kitchen table simultaneously.

Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885