Proto-West Germanic
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Etymology
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From Proto-Germanic *watōr .
*watar n [1]
water
Inflection
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This noun needs an inflection-table template .
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Old English: wæter , water
Old Frisian: weter , water , wetir
Old Saxon: watar Middle Low German: wāter Dutch Low Saxon: water ( Drents, Twents ) Low German: Water Plautdietsch: Wota
Old Dutch: watar , watir , uuatar , uuatir
Old High German: wazzar , wazar , wazzer , waszer Middle High German: waȥȥer Alemannic German: Wasser , Wâser Alsatian: Wasser , Wâsser , Wàser Italian Walser: wasser , wàsser Bavarian: Wåsser , Wossa Cimbrian: bassar , bazzar Gottscheerish: boßər , bàsser Mòcheno: bòsser Udinese: bosser , bosar , bòsser Central Franconian: Wasser , Waßer Hunsrik: Wasser , waser Transylvanian Saxon: Wåsser East Central German:Silesian East Central German: Woasser , Wosser , Wasser Upper Saxon German: Wassor German: Wasser Luxembourgish: Waasser Rhine Franconian: Wasser Hessian: Wassä Pennsylvania German: Wasser Vilamovian: wosser , woser Yiddish: וואַסער ( vaser )
References
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^ Ringe, Donald , Taylor, Ann (2014 ) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN , page 59 : “PWGmc *watar ”