usquebaugh

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈʌs.kwɪ.bɔː/    美 /ˈʌs.kwəˌbɔ/|/-ˌbɑ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Whiskey or whisky. Ireland,Scotland,archaic,countable,uncountable
    — [R]emember the Lo[rd] Admyrall [Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham] and the Lord Threasurer [Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset] with a couple of Pugges or some vscough baugh or some such toyes, it would shew that you do not neglect them, whoe, I protest, are to you wonderfull kynde.

词形变化

usquebaughs plural uskebeaghe alternative,obsolete usquebath alternative,obsolete usquabae alternative,Scotland,obsolete usquebae alternative,Scotland,obsolete whiskybae alternative,Scotland,obsolete

词源

[Alt: A glass with a round bottom which tappers to the lip, served with usquebaugh.]
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wed-
Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥der.
Proto-Celtic *udenskyos
Old Irish uisce
Irish uisce
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós
Proto-Celtic *biwos
Proto-Celtic *-tūts
Proto-Celtic *biwotūts
Old Irish bethu
Irish beatha
Medieval Latin aqua vītaecalq.
Irish uisce beathabor.
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Old Irish uisce
Scottish Gaelic uisge
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Old Irish bethu
Scottish Gaelic beatha
Medieval Latin aqua vītaecalq.
Scottish Gaelic uisge-beathabor.
English usquebaugh
Borrowed from Irish uisce beatha and Scottish Gaelic uisge beatha (“whiskey or whisky”, literally “water of life”) (a calque of Medieval Latin aqua vītae (“distilled alcohol, liquor”, literally “water of life”)), from Irish uisce, Scottish Gaelic uisge (“water”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“water”)) + Irish beatha, Scottish Gaelic beatha (“life”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”)), Doublet of whiskey and whisky.
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