section_path: Etymology
section_name: Etymology
paragraph_text: Etymology
  
  The word water comes from Old English wæter, from Proto-Germanic * watar (source also of Old Saxon watar, Old Frisian wetir, Dutch water, Old High German wazzar, German Wasser, vatn, Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐍄𐍉 (wato)), from Proto-Indo-European * wod-or, suffixed form of root * wed- (' water '; ' wet '). Also cognate, through the Indo-European root, with Greek ύδωρ (ýdor; from Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (hýdōr), whence English ' hydro- '), Russian вода́ (vodá), Irish uisce, and Albanian ujë.