Wrote Max Q:
Thanks, of troy. I had long known of "uisge" and its parallel in Scandanavian, but I did not know that aquavit and vodka were
both derived from "uisge" Those drunken Celts and Picts sure got around!
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Not too surprising when one considers that the Russ (from which Russia) were a Nordic tribe which plied the Varangean "highway" of ancient times. They Pict fertile ground for becomming the Celt of the earth, they did.