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uisge

uisge

Irish

Noun

uisge m ‎(genitive singular uisge, nominative plural uisgí)

Obsolete spelling of uisce

Declension

Declension of uisge

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	uisge	uisgí
Vocative	a uisge	a uisgí
Genitive	uisge	uisgí
Dative	uisge	uisgí

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an t-uisge	na huisgí
Genitive	an uisge	na n-uisgí
Dative	leis an uisge don uisge	leis na huisgí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
uisge	n-uisge	huisge	t-uisge
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish uisce, from Proto-Celtic *udenskyos, from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɯʃkʲə/

Noun

uisge m ‎(genitive singular uisge, plural uisgeachan)

water
rain, shower
Tha an t-uisge ann.‎
It is raining.
river, stream
(rare) wave

Synonyms

(stream): abhainn, sruth

Derived terms

Terms derived from uisge

buabhall uisge ‎(“water buffalo”)
creagag-uisge ‎(“European perch”)
dath-uisge ‎(“watercolour”)
fìor-uisge ‎(“fresh water; spring water”)

iolair-uisge ‎(“osprey”)
muileann-uisge ‎(“water mill”)
uisge-adhair ‎(“rainwater”)
uisge-beatha ‎(“whisky”)

uisge-coisrigte ‎(“holy water”)
uisge-dhìonach ‎(“waterproof”)
uisge-searbhaig ‎(“acid rain”)
uisge-stiùireach ‎(“wake (behind boat)”)

References

Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
“uisce” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.