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Post by isoaker » Wed May 17, 2006 10:14 am

I want to build and maintain a listing of the words used around the world for "water". (Some characters sadly display as character mappings instead of true symbols due to forum processing)

water (English)
H2O (English - scientific)

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water (Afrikaans)
wakka (Ainu)
uji (Albanian)
wuha (Amharic)
الماء (Arabic)
djour (Armenian)
su (Azeri)
gui (Bambara)
ura (Basque)
jal (Bengali)
amana (Berber)
zou (Bobo)
dour (Breton)
voda (Bulgarian)
yei (Burmese)
tuna (Carib)
aigua (Catalan)
水 (shui - Chinese, Mandarin)
acqua (Corsican)
voda (Croatian)
voda (Czech)
vand (Danish)
madiba (Dualla)
het, water (Dutch)
vesi (Estonian)
vesi (Finnish)
l'eau (French)
aghe (Fuilan)
auga (Galician)
wasser (German)
ύδωρ (neroh - Greek)
pani (Gujarati)
hydro- (prefix, Greek)
y (Guarani)
dlo (Haitian creole)
ruwa (Hausa)
maima (Hebrew)
paani (Hindi)
viz (Hungarian)
mmiri (Ibo)
vatn (Icelandic)
air (Indonesian)
uisge (Irish Gaelic)
acqua (Italian)
水 (mizu - Japanese)
amane (Kabylian)
neeru (Kannada)
thuk (Khmer)
물 (mul - Korean)
nam (Lao)
aqua- (prefix, Latin)
maille (Lebanese)
vanduo (Lithuanian)
waasser (Luxembourgeois)
voda (Macedonian)
rano (Malagasy)
wai (Maori)
vellum (Malayalam)
co (Mapuche)
atl (Nahuatl)
vann (Norwegian)
aiga (Occitan)
bishan (Oromifa)
ater-way (Pig Latin)
woda (Polish)
água (Portuguese)
yaku (Quechua)
вода (voda - Russian)
apa - (Romanian)
abba (Sardinian)
mvura (Shona)
biyo (Somali)
agua (Spanish)
maji (Swahili)
vatten (Swedish)
tubig (Tagalog)
ta-neer (Tamil)
nam (Thai)
mai (Tigrigna)
su (Turkish)
nusc (Vietnamese)
aiwe (Walloon)
jo (Warao)
d'wr (Welsh)
omi (Yoruba)
amanzi (Zulu)

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For those with proper character sets installed, you can see the proper characters at the bottom of the iSoaker.com Glossary Page.

Please post below other additions to this listing.

Many of the words were obtained from this site: Water Year 2003.

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Post by SharpObjects » Wed May 17, 2006 11:58 am

All I get for Russian and some others is вод&#1072.
Why is that?
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Post by isoaker » Wed May 17, 2006 12:01 pm

SharpObjects wrote:All I get for Russian and some others is вод&#1072.
Why is that?
The numbers and such are character mapping codes. It's annoying, but that's due in part to these forums disallowing true HTML content from being posted.

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Post by wetmonkey442 » Wed May 17, 2006 4:49 pm

iSoaker, I stress again how much time you have on your hands. :goofy:

Nice list though, and very interesting to look at. It's amazing how different people can have different names for the same thing, and yet, if you look closely, you can also observe the similarities. The development of language has always intrigued me.
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Post by isoaker » Wed May 17, 2006 5:38 pm

Time? I wish I had more time on my hands. How long do you think it took me to compile this list?

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Post by isoaker » Fri May 19, 2006 9:35 am

bIQ (Klingon)
aekhhwi (Romulan)
Nen (Elven)

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Post by Spinner » Sun Jul 09, 2006 3:31 pm

V\/473|? (Leet) :p
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