Wasser

Wasser (plural Wassers)

1. A surname.

• Wasser on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• resaws, swares, sawers, wrasse, sewars, swears

• Wâsser, Wàser (Alsace)
• Wâser (Dunzenheim)
• wasser, wàsser (Italian Walser)

From Middle High German waʒʒer, from Old High German waʒʒar. Cognate with German Wasser, Dutch and English water, Icelandic vatn.

Wasser n

1. (Basel, Alsace) water

• Wassermoli

• Wörterbuch der elsässischen Mundarten
• Rudolf Suter, Baseldeutsch-Grammatik (1976): s Wasser

• Waßer (native in most dialects; now archaic in many)

From Middle High German wazzer, from Old High German wazzar. The use of -a- instead of the expected -ā- is influenced by standard German.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋasʌ/

Wasser n (plural Wasser, diminutive Wässerche)

1. (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!

• Hunsrik: Wasser
• Luxembourgish: Waasser
• Transylvanian Saxon: Wåsser, Wosser (Sibiu), Wauesser (Brașov)

From Middle High German waȥȥer, from Old High German waȥȥar, 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈva.sər/, [ˈva.sɐ], [ˈva.səʁ]

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• Hyphenation: Was‧ser

Wasser n (strong, genitive Wassers, plural Wasser or Wässer, diminutive Wässerchen n or Wässerlein n)

1. water (H₂O)
2. water, waters (body of water, especially a river or lake)
3. (chiefly in compounds) alcoholic beverage, similar to brandy, made from fermented fruit
4. (literary, euphemistic) urine

   Wasser lassen ― to urinate

5. (colloquial) clipping of Mineralwasser/Tafelwasser

• 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”).

• “Wasser”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[2] (in German)
• “Wasser” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Wasser” in Duden online
• Wasser on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

• waser (Wiesemann spelling system)

Inherited from Central Franconian Wasser.^[1]

Cognate with German Wasser, Luxembourgish Waasser, Pennsylvania German Wasser and Transylvanian Saxon Wåsser.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvasa/
• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: Was‧ser

Wasser n (plural Wassre)

1. water

   Ich drinke en Glaas Wasser.

   I am drinking a glass of water.

From Middle High German wazzer, from Old High German wazzar. Compare German Wasser, Dutch water, English water.

Wasser n

1. water

From Middle High German wazzer, from Old High German wazzar.

Wasser n

1. (many dialects, including Palatine) water

• Verse und Reime eines alten Pfälzers, in pfälzischer Mundart (1864): guts Wasser

From German Wasser, from Middle High German wazzer, from Old High German wazzar.

*Wasser

1. water

• 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.'

From Middle High German wazzer, from Old High German wazzar.

Wasser n

1. water