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WATER

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WAT-

Hittite: wa-a-tar (watar, uadər)

Old Saxon: watar

Old Dutch: watar

Old English: wæter

Middle English: water

English: water

Old Frisian: water

Middle Low German: wāter

Dutch Low Saxon: water

Low German: Water

Limburgish: water

Middle Dutch: water

Dutch: water

Afrikaans: water

Old Swedish: vatu-

Swedish: vattu-

Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐍄𐍉 (watō)

Belarusian: вада́ (vadá)


VATN-

Old Norse: vatn

Icelandic: vatn

Faroese: vatn

Norn: vatn

Norwegian Nynorsk: vatn

Old Swedish: vatn

Swedish: vatten

Gutnish: vattn

Elfdalian: wattn

Westrobothnian: vâtn

Old Danish: watn


VAS-

Old High German: wazzar

Middle High German: wazzer

German: Wasser

Hunsrik: Wasser, waser

Luxembourgish: Waasser

Pennsylvania German: Wasser


VOS-

Vilamovian: wosser


WARS-

Luwian: wārsa

North Frisian: waar


VAN-

Old Danish: wan, wand

Danish: vand

Lithuanian: vanduo

Norwegian Bokmål: vann

Scanian: vann


VOD- VOT-

East Slavic: вода (voda)

Russian: вода́ (vodá)

Rusyn: вода́ (vodá)

Ukrainian: вода́ (vodá)

Old Church Slavonic: вода ⰲⱁⰴⰰ (voda)

Bulgarian: вода́ (vodá)

Macedonian: во́да (vóda)

Serbo-Croatian: во̀да, vòda

Slovene: vóda

Czech: voda

Kashubian: wòda

Polabian: vådă

Polish: woda

Silesian: woda

Slovak: voda

Slovincian: vʉ̀ɵ̯dą

Upper Sorbian: woda

Lower Sorbian: wóda

Plautdietsch: Wota

Saterland Frisian: Woater


WED- UED-

Phrygian: wedu

Hittite: u-e-da-ar (uedar), u-e-da-an-ta (uedanta), u-ui-te-na-as (wedenas) (gen. sg.)

----> Erzya: ведь (ved')

----> Moksha: ведь (ved')


VET- UET-

North Frisian: weeter, woar, waer

West Frisian: wetter

Hittite: u-e-te-na (uetena) (all. sg.)

Old Frisian: weter, wetir


UID-

Latin: ūvidus ("wet")


WUND-

Old Prussian: wundan, wunda


OND-

Samogitian: ondou

Spanish: onda ("wave")

French: onde ("wave")

Italian: onda ("wave")

Portuguese: onda ("wave")


UND-

Old Prussian: undan

Latin: unda ("wave")

Romanian: undă ("wave")


UD- UT-

Mycenaean Greek: u-do

Ancient Greek: ὕδωρ (húdōr)

Greek: ύδωρ (ýdor)

Phrygian: udor

Umbian: 𐌖𐌕𐌖𐌓 (utur)

Sanskrit: उदन् (udán) ("water, wave")

Latvian: udens

Latgalian: iudiņs

Latin: udus ("wet")


VES-

----> Estonian, Finnish, Ingrian, Veps: vesi


UIS-

Old Irish: uisce

Irish: uisce

Manx: ushtey

Scottish Gaelic: uisge

----> English: whiskey, whisky

Albanian: ujë


Article published on the 11th of July 2018. Updated with new Hittite form on the 29th of August 2022.