sweet water

See also: sweetwater and Sweetwater

English

Etymology

The concept of fresh water being sweet is widespread among multiple languages:

Terms

• PIE:
  • Latin aqua dulcis
  • Romance:
    • Galician auga doce
    • Esperanto dolĉakvo
    • French eau douce
    • Italian acqua dolce
    • Norman ieau douoche
    • Occitan aiga doça
    • Portuguese água doce
    • Romanian apă dulce
    • Spanish agua dulce
  • Ancient Greek γλυκύ ὕδωρ (glukú húdōr), Greek γλυκό νερό (glykó neró)
  • Germanic:
    • German Süßwasser
    • Dutch zoet water
    • Swedish sötvatten
  • Latvian saldūdens
  • Slavic:
    • Czech sladká voda
    • Macedonian слатка вода (slatka voda)
    • Polish słodka woda
    • Serbo-Croatian слатка вода
    • Slovene sladka voda
  • Persian آبِ شیرین
  • Tajik оби ширин (ob-i širin)
  • Indo-Aryan:
    • Hindi मीठा पानी (mīṭhā pānī)
    • Bengali মিঠা পানি (miṭha pani)
    • Marathi गोड पाणी (goḍ pāṇī)
    • Gujarati મીઠું પાણી (mīṭhũ pāṇī)
• non PIE:
  • Hungarian édesvíz
  • Finnish makea vesi
  • Turkish tatlı su
  • Swahili maji matamu
  • Malagasy ranomamy
  • Vietnamese nước ngọt

Noun

sweet water (countable and uncountable, plural sweet waters)

2. (uncommon) Fresh water.