Noun: water
Gender: Neuter
Hyphenation:
| Sg. | water |
| Pl. | waters; wateren |
Sample Sentences
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Het water kookte. (The water boiled.)
Nouns inflected like water
busmeester,
scalar,
grondbeginsel,
comptoir,
moordwapen,
vluchtheuvel,
boetiek,
boutiek,
bestevader,
baaierd,
Assassijn,
spadassijn,
familiewapen,
alantswortel,
precursor,
veldteken,
processor,
aasvogel,
portier,
hogepriester, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *wed-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
4. Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥
5. Proto-Germanic *watōr
6. Proto-West Germanic *watar
7. Old Dutch watar
8. Middle Dutch wāter
9. Dutch water
10. From Middle Dutch wāter, from Old Dutch watar, from Proto-West Germanic *watar, from Proto-Germanic *watōr, from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥.
Verbs referencing "water"
German Nouns
Wasser, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
vatn, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
vann, English Nouns
water.
Translations