köken: From English spirit, from Latin spīritus (< spīrō). Can be calqued as **духло́. Doublet of спрайт (sprajt). Compare natively formed гори́лка (gorílka) (akin to горе́ть (gorétʹ)).
aqua vitae (concentrated aqueous solution of ethanol)
çekim: tamlayan akwawity
köken: Etymology tree Medieval Latin aqua vītaelbor. Polish akwawita Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin aqua vītae. First attested in 1568. Doublet of okowita.
strong (highly stimulating to the senses) · strong (having an offensive or intense odor or flavor) · strong (having a high concentration of an essential or active ingredient)
çekim: karşılaştırma väkevämpi · üstünlük väkevin
köken: From Proto-Finnic *väkebä, derived from *väki (“strength, power”). Equivalent to väki (“power, force, strength”) (now archaic in this sense) + -vä. As a noun, short for väkevä alkoholijuoma, a legal term for liquor that contains more than 22 percent alcohol by volume.
distilled or spirituous beverage, as brandy or whiskey, as distinguished from เมรัย (mee-rai), fermented beverage, as beer or wine. · any alcoholic beverage.
köken: Borrowed from Sanskrit सुरा (súrā, “spirituous beverage”).