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
- Roman:
- 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)
- 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)
- (uncommon) Fresh water.