köken: From late Middle High German brantwīn, contraction of older gebranter wīn, which latter is equivalent to modern gebrannter Wein (“distilled wine”, literally “burnt wine”).
Jetzt soll der Kerl pfeifen, dunkelblau soll er sich pfeifen! He! Brandwein, das ist mein Leben! Brandwein, das gibt Courage!
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”).