Hi,

I live in a country pretty close to Russia, I learned Russian for some time, and cannot imagine how vodka could inherit from "water of life" which, I believe, is (here goes, Polish is so close to Russian it would be a letter-to-letter transcription) "voda zhizny".

I would be very grateful (and I mean it) if you could just explain me how THIS came from "uisge beatha"?

Lukasz