sweet water
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sweet water
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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 waters
- Fresh water.
Talk about this word "sweet water." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/sweet%20water. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. sweet water. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/sweet%20water "sweet water." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/sweet%20water.Cite this
@misc{sweet_water_2026,
title = {sweet water},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sweet%20water},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
