akʷā- (more properly ǝkʷā): ēkʷ-

    akʷā- (more properly ǝkʷā): ēkʷ-

    English meaning: “water, river”

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “Wasser, Fluß”

    Note: From Root angʷ(h)i- : ‘snake, worm” derived Root akʷü- (more properly ǝkʷü ): ēkʷ- : “water, river”; Root eĝhero- : “lake, inner sea”; Root ad(u)-, ad-ro- : “water current”: Illyr. pannon. VN ᾽Οσεριᾶτες [common Alb.-Illyr.-Balt -ĝh- > -d-, -z- phonetic mutation]. From Root akʷü- “water, river” nasalized in *aku̯ent- (suffixed in -er, -or) derived Root au̯(e)-9, au̯ed-, au̯er- : “to flow, to wet; water, etc.”

    Material: Lat. aqua “water, water pipe” (thereof aquilus “dark”, aquila “eagle”, lit. “the swarthy”, aquilō “north wind”, lit. “the darkening sky”) = Goth. aƕa f. “river, body of water”, O.Ice. ǫ́, O.E. ēa, O.S. O.H.G. aha, Ger. Ache ds. (Gmc. *ahwō, thereof derived *ahwjō , *awjō ‘surrounded by the water “ in O.Ice. ey f. “island, pasture, grassland”, O.E. íeg, O.H.G. -ouwa, -awa, M.H.G. ouwe f. “water, peninsula in the river, grassland rich in water”; maybe Alb. (*aquilō) akull “frozen water, ice” It seems that Root akʷü- (more properly ǝkʷü ): ēkʷ- : (water, river) derived from Root ak̂-, ok̂- : (sharp; stone). Ger. Aue, compare O.Fris. ei-land “island”, Sca(n)din-avia Kretschmer Gl. 17, 148 ff.), Russ. FlN Oká, pannon. PN Aquincum ‘stove (*cooking stove where water boils making bubbles)”, Apul. FlN Aquilō , Ven. PN Aquileia (also in South Germany); with ablaut (IE ē) in addition O.Ice. ǽgir (*ēkʷi̯ ó s) “God of the sea”, O.E. ǽg-weard “ watch at the sea”, éagor ‘sea, flood” (the initial sound after ēa); maybe here O.Ind. küm “water”, dak. plant N κοαδάμα ποταμογείτων “ water colonist “ (*kʷa-dhēmn̥ ), Pol. (N.Illyr.) FlN Kwa. The affiliation from Hitt. e-ku-uz-zi (ekuzi) “drinks”, 3. pl. a-ku-wa-an-zi, seems not unlikely. Moreover also Toch. AB yok-tsi “drink”. O.Ir. oiche “water” does not exist; Welsh aig ‘sea” is neologism to eigion from Lat. oceanus. Alb. (*oceanus) oqean “ocean”. From PIE the root for water, ocean, passed to Altaic: Protoform: *ōk”e ( ˜ -k-)

    English meaning: “deep place, place far from the shore” Turkic protoform: *ȫkũ Tungus protoform: *(x)uKJapanese protoform: *ǝki

    Note: The parallel seems plausible; the common meaning here may be formulated as "a place (in the sea or river) distant from the shore".

    References: WP. I 34 f., WH. I 60, 848, Feist 18 f., Pedersen Hittitisch 128, Tocharisch 190.