whisky
英 ['wɪskɪ]
美 ['wɪski]
英語の語源
- whisky
- whisky: [18] Whisky denotes etymologically ‘water of life’. The word is short for an earlier whiskybae, which was an alteration of usquebaugh; and this in turn was an anglicization of Gaelic uisge beatha ‘water of life’ (Gaelic uisge ‘water’ comes from the same Indo-European source as English water, and beatha ‘life’ is related to Latin vīta ‘life’ and English vital). The distinction in spelling between Scotch whisky and American and Irish whiskey goes back no further than the 19th century. French eau de vie ‘brandy’, literally ‘water of life’, is semantically identical.
=> vital, water - whisky (n.)
- see whiskey.
例文
- 1. It was his invariable custom to have one whisky before his supper.
- 夕食にウイスキーを飲むのは、これまでの習慣だった。
- 2.Francis poured a generous measure of the whisky into a fresh glass.
- フランシスはきれいなグラスにウイスキーをたくさん注いだ。
- 3.When his whisky came he drank half of it in one gulp.
- ウイスキーが運ばれてきたら、一気に半分飲んでしまった。
- 4.Her husband 's memories are of living off roast chicken and drinking whisky .
- 彼女の夫は焼き鳥を食べたり、ウイスキーを飲んだりした過去の日しか覚えていない。
- 5.The island 's present economy owes a good deal to whisky distilling.
- この島の現在の経済発展は主に蒸留法によるウイスキー醸造業界のおかげである。