sweet water

Questions

What does sweet water mean?

Fresh water.

Where does sweet water come from?

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

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