Wasser
English edit
Proper noun edit
Wasser (plural Wassers)
- A surname.
Anagrams edit
Alemannic German edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German waʒʒer, from Old High German waʒʒar. Cognate with German Wasser, Dutch and English water, Icelandic vatn.
Noun edit
Wasser n
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Wörterbuch der elsässischen Mundarten
- Rudolf Suter, Baseldeutsch-Grammatik (1976): s Wasser
Central Franconian edit
Alternative forms edit
- Waßer (native in most dialects; now archaic in many)
Etymology edit
From Middle High German wazzer, from Old High German wazzar. The use of -a- instead of the expected -ā- is influenced by standard German.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Wasser n (plural Wasser, diminutive Wässerche)
- (many dialects) water
- 1990, “Dat Wasser vun Kölle”[1]performed by Bläck Fööss:
- O leeve Jott, jevv uns Wasser,
Denn janz Kölle hät Doosch!
O leeve Jott, jevv uns Wasser
Un helf uns en der Nut!- O dear God, give us water,
For all of Cologne is thirsty!
O dear God, give us water
And help us in our misery!
- O dear God, give us water,
German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German wazzer, from Old High German wazzar, from Proto-West Germanic *watar, from Proto-Germanic *watōr, from Proto-Indo-European *wédōr, collective of *wódr̥.
Compare Low German Water, Dutch water, English water, Danish vand.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈva.sər/, [ˈva.sɐ], [ˈva.səʁ]
Audio (file) Audio (file) Audio (Bavarian) (file) - Hyphenation: Was‧ser
Noun edit
Wasser n (strong, genitive Wassers, plural Wasser or Wässer, diminutive Wässerchen n or Wässerlein n)
- water (H₂O)
- alcoholic beverage, similar to brandy, made from fermented fruit
- (colloquial) Clipping of Mineralwasser/Tafelwasser.
Usage notes edit
- Both plural forms are infrequent. Unchanged Wasser is used as a purely emphatic plural: die Wasser des Rheins – the waters of the Rhine. Wässer is used as an actual plural meaning different kinds of water (or brandy): teure und preiswerte Wässer – expensive and inexpensive [table] waters. However, Wässer is also used emphatically in some compound words such as Abwässer (“waste water”) and Schmutzwässer (“dirty water”).
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
- Abwasser (“wastewater; sewage”)
- Altwasser (“oxbow lake”)
- auch nur mit Wasser kochen
- Blut ist dicker als Wasser (“blood is thicker than water”)
- das Wasser reichen können (“to hold a candle”, literally “to hand the water”)
- Gewässer (“body of water, waterbody, water”)
- Hochwasser (“flood, flooding”)
- Kirschwasser (“kirsch, a clear brandy made from black cherries”)
- Meerwasser (“seawater”)
- Mineralwasser (“mineral water, carbonated water”)
- Salzwasser (“salt water”)
- Sprudelwasser (“fizzy water”)
- Süßwasser (“freshwater”)
- Trinkwasser (“drinking water”)
- Wasser predigen und Wein trinken (“to not practice what one preaches”, literally “to preach water and drink wine”)
- Wasserbecken
- Wasserbehälter
- Wasserbombe (“depth charge; water bomb, water balloon”, literally “water bomb”)
- Wasserdampf (“steam; water vapour”)
- Wassereis (“ice pop, popsicle, ice lolly; frozen water”, literally “water ice”)
- Wasserfall (“waterfall”)
- Wasserfarbe (“watercolour”)
- Wasserfläche
- Wasserflasche f (“water bottle”)
- Wasserfloh
- Wassergewebe
- Wassergüte
- Wasserhund (“water dog”)
- wässerig, wässrig (“watery”)
- Wasserkopf
- Wasserlauf
- Wassermann (“Aquarius, Aquarian”)
- Wasserminze
- Wassermühle (“water mill”)
- wässern (“to water”)
- Wasserpfeife (“water pipe”)
- Wasserralle (“water rail”)
- Wasserrutsche f (“Waterslide”)
- Wassersäule f (“water column”)
- Wasserscheide (“watershed”)
- Wasserski (“water skiing; water ski”)
- Wasserskorpion (“water scorpion”)
- Wasserspeier (“gargoyle, waterspout”)
- Wasserspinne (“water spider, diving bell spider”)
- Wasserstoff (“hydrogen”)
- Wasserstraße
- Wassertemperatur
- Wassertiefe
- Wasserverbrauch
- Wasserverlust
- Wasserwanze (“water bug”)
- Weihwasser
- Wildwasser (“white water”)
- Wurstwasser (“water in which sausages have been cooked and/or packaged”)
Further reading edit
- “Wasser” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Wasser” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Wasser” in Duden online
- Wasser on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Hunsrik edit
Alternative forms edit
- waser (Wiesemann spelling system)
Etymology edit
From Middle High German wazzer, from Old High German wazzar, from Proto-West Germanic *watar, from Proto-Germanic *watōr, from Proto-Indo-European *wédōr.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Wasser n (plural Wassre)
- water
- Ich drinke en Glaas Wasser.
- I am drinking a glass of water.
Declension edit
singular | plural | |||
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def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative/accusative | das | Wasser | die | Wasser |
dative | dem | Wasser | den/de | Wasser |
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
Pennsylvania German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German wazzer, from Old High German wazzar. Compare German Wasser, Dutch water, English water.
Noun edit
Wasser n
Rhine Franconian edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German wazzer, from Old High German wazzar.
Noun edit
Wasser ?
References edit
- Verse und Reime eines alten Pfälzers, in pfälzischer Mundart (1864): guts Wasser
Unserdeutsch edit
Etymology edit
From German Wasser, from Middle High German wazzer, from Old High German wazzar.
Noun edit
*Wasser
References edit
- Craig Volker, The Birth and Decline of Rabaul Creole German, in: 1991, Language and Linguistics in Melanesia, vol. 22, pp. 143ff., here p. 154:
- 3. Inclusive/exclusive 'we':
- (a) Uns bis neben Salz-wasser.
- we:IN are next.to salt water
- 'We're next to the ocean.'
Volga German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German wazzer, from Old High German wazzar.
Noun edit
Wasser n