Readit Newskepler471 commented on Are any words the same in all languages? blog.duolingo.com/words-s... · Posted by u/spansoa
It is strange to see Slavic lumped in with Germanic. Is this common practice?
I only meant this as "similar to the Germanic", I don't know enough to give this category a proper name
kepler471 commented on Are any words the same in all languages? blog.duolingo.com/words-s... · Posted by u/spansoa
The Danish belongs in the "Germanic" list; as does the Norwegian "vann" and "vatn" (the latter also Faroese, Icelandic, Norn), and Swedish "vatten".
The Romanian and French both comes from the latin aqua, just like the Italian/Spanish.
Thanks for this!
Looking into it a bit more, the French is also from the latin source (aqua) - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eau
kepler471 commented on Are any words the same in all languages? blog.duolingo.com/words-s... · Posted by u/spansoa
Water is a common word across Germanic languages.
It also appears to be a very old word as I saw a documentary about the Hittites and the interviewee stated that they may have migrated from Europe.
Even within Europe there are many different words used for water, very cool!
This is not a comprehensive list:
Germanic - wasser/water/voda/woda
French - eau
Italian/Spanish - aqua/agua
Greek - nero (νερό)
Danish - vand
Romanian - apă
Latvian - udens
Turkish - su
Welsh - dwr