köken: From Middle High German bach m or f, from Old High German bah, from Proto-West Germanic *baki. Cognate with Dutch beek, English beach and beck. The Middle High German gender was chiefly masculine in Upper German, chiefly feminine in Central German. This is one of the rarer cases in which northern gender usage did not establish itself; perhaps because the masculine agrees with the semantically…
aile: Bachforelle, Bachufer, Bergbach, den Bach runtergehen, Sturzbach, Wildbach
köken: Inherited from Middle Persian lwd (/rōd/, “river”), from Old Persian 𐎼𐎢𐎫 (r-u-t /rautaʰ/, “river, torrent”), from Proto-Iranian *hráwtah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sráwtas, from Proto-Indo-European *srew-, possibly from *ser-.
köken: Inherited from Chagatai دریا (dryā), from Classical Persian دریا (daryā), from Middle Persian [script needed] (dlydʾp̄ /drayāb/, “sea”). Cognate with Uzbek daryo, etc
köken: From Byzantine Greek, from Koine Greek, from Ancient Greek ποτάμιον (potámion), diminutive of ποταμός (potamós). Cognate with Mariupol Greek пута́м (putám).
aile: ποταμάκι, τα σιγανά ποτάμια να φοβάσαι, έτρεχε να μη βραχεί κι έπεσε στο ποτάμι
köken: Borrowed from Middle Korean ᄀᆞᄅᆞᆷ〮 (Yale: kòlóm), revived in the twentieth century as a poetic native alternative to Sino-Korean 강 (江, gang). Possibly an ancient pre-Sino-Korean borrowing from Old Chinese 江 (OC *kˤroŋ, “river”).
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tekъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *tekas, from Proto-Indo-European *tekʷos, from *tekʷ-. By surface analysis, deverbal from ciec.
köken: From Proto-Finnic *joki (compare Estonian jõgi (“river”), Karelian joki /jogi (“river”), Veps jogi (“river”)), from Proto-Uralic *joke (compare Northern Sami johka, Moksha Йов (Jov, “Moksha river”), Northern Mansi я̄ (â̄, “river”), archaic Hungarian jó).