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Uisge Beatha: Scots Gaelic for aqua vitae, 'water of life', from the first part of which the word 'whisky' derives.
Uisge Beatha (:[Gaelic] That's whisk - beeth or as we now call it; whisky)

1618 - Early reference to 'uisge', being drunk at Highland chief's funeral.
(first reference was 1494, where a graindealers ledger stated the sale of barley towards the production of whisky)

 
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