Posted: 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.
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.
