Meaning: water

Illustrative Context

She was thirsty, so she drank some water.

Target Sense

• The most generic, basic and default noun for water.
• In many languages this will be the same term as used in the traditional Classical concept of the four ‘elements’, i.e. water as opposed to earth, air and fire.
• Avoid terms that refer specifically to either fresh or salt water (e.g. brine).
• Most languages have a single basic cover term for water, applicable to both fresh and salt water, but not limited and specific to either of them.
• If your language, unusually, has no general cover term, but only two mutually incompatible terms for fresh and salt water respectively, then select the word that refers to fresh water.
• Similarly, as per general IE-CoR policies, avoid narrow terms in any other senses too, e.g. specifically drinking water, or terms for a natural body of water like a lake, river or sea.