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voda
Slavic · ancient
"water"
the common Slavic root word for water
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vodka
Russian · 1400s-1500s
"distilled grain spirit"
literally "little water", a diminutive of voda
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vodka
English · 1800s
"the clear distilled spirit"
adopted as Russian and Polish spirits reached Western Europe
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