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firewater

firewater · firewaters

Löschwasser

High-proof alcoholic beverage, especially whiskeyHigh-proof alcoholic beverage, especially whiskey (especially in the context of its sale to or consumption by Native Americans).

Значение

значений: 4

(исчисляемое, разговорное, неисчисляемое)High-proof alcoholic beverage, especially whiskey (especially in the context of its sale to or consumption by Native Americans).
Feuerwasser
огненная водаognennaja voda
(исчисляемое, особенно, неисчисляемое)Water for use in firefighting.
Löschwasser
(исчисляемое, неисчисляемое)High-temperature hydraulic condensate discharged from industrial boilers.
(исчисляемое, устаревшее, неисчисляемое)Synonym of alkahest.

Ещё определения

any strong spirits (such as strong whisky or rum)

Переводы

языков: 4

Русский

high-proof alcoholic beverage:

Deutsch

По значениям 2

high-proof alcoholic beverage:

water for use in firefighting:

Происхождение

A calque of a Native American language term, probably Ojibwe ishkodewaaboo (“alcohol”), fr

A calque of a Native American language term, probably Ojibwe ishkodewaaboo (“alcohol”), from ishkodew- (“fire”) + -aaboo (“liquid”, glossed in older works as “water”). A number of other Algonquian, Siouan and Athabaskan languages also refer to whiskey with compounds that mean "fire-water" (on which basis noted Algonquianist Leonard Bloomfield even reconstructed a Proto-Algonquian word for it, *eškwete·wa·po·wi, although this cannot have existed). The motivation of the name is not entirely clear: It may refer to the “burning” feeling of ingesting high-proof alcohol, or to its flammability; alternatively, it may refer to how low-quality spirits also often included ingredients such as pepper, which burned.

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