wæter
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[edit] Old English
[edit] Etymology
Common Germanic *wat-, West Germanic *watar, from Proto-Indo-European *u̯odr̥ (genitive *wedn-ós (“‘of water’”)) < PIE verb root *wed-.
Germanic cognates: Old Frisian weter, Old Saxon watar (Dutch water), Old High German wazzar (German Wasser), Old Norse vatn (Swedish vatten), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐍄𐍉.
Indo-European cognates: Sanskrit उदन्, Greek ὕδωρ, Common Slavic *voda (Old Church Slavonic вода, Polish woda), Lithuanian vanduo, Latin unda, Irish uisce.
(PIE also had animate synonyms, *h₂ekʷeh₂- and *h₂ep-, which are the sources of Latin aqua and Persian آب (âb) respectively.)
May be a cognate of the Uralic root *wete, cf. vesi, víz.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈwæteɹ/
[edit] Noun
wæter
