Talk:Ap (water)

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This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 17:18, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Redirecting Ap back to this article

Ap was redirecting to AP which at the time was a disambiguation page. The page was flagged for clean-up, however after some consideration I converted it to a redirect to this page. For more info please see Talk:AP Marchije (talk) 02:50, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

What about "apă" / pronounced apə or ɑpə

It's the Romanian word for water. There are two hypothesis: 1) It's the latin "acqua" / akwa 2) It's the dacian "apɐ" coming from perhaps a Pre-Indo-European Pelasgian cognate of the Sanskrit "Ap" in this article.

There are quite a few works that are citable for each one of the above, however the mainstream theory is number 1. What are your thoughts? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.234.163.62 (talk) 05:34, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

See History of Romanian#Consonants. There's no need nor even sufficient justification to postulate substrate origin when the etymology is completely obvious and unproblematic. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 17:21, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

In Thai

There is no any evidence that Ap (transliterated : aab) in Thai derived from Sanskrit. This "Ap" in Thai means "to shower the body", not water. Also, "Ap" is an old word before Sanskrit influence. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.47.18.233 (talk) 13:24, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

You appear to be right. According to Starostin's etymology database [1] (not sure if this is completely reliable, but I don't know if we'll be able to find better), there is a Proto-Tai-Kadai root *ʔa:p 'to bathe'. Removing this paragraph now. Uanfala (talk) 16:50, 24 October 2015 (UTC)