Vodka as we know today is an alcoholic drink having its origin in todays Russia.A quick search of the etymology for Vodka gives the root Voda which in Slavic language means water and in its diminutive form Vod-ka meaning little water. So far so good. The drink being a watery object or prepared with little water or perhaps its consumption with little water may have created the today's vodka. In polish records Wodka referes to some medicinal drinks. A link with Latin Aqua Vitae meaning water of life is also proposed which in laymans observation is a distant link if any exists. In whatever way the search is made, a connection with water, be it slovak or Russian voda, polish woda i spretty clear.
However a more common and stronger link is found in a Sanskrit word. there are numeral synonym of water in Sanskrit and common ones are udaka, bari, neer, apa, jal etc. The phonetic similarity of Udaka(or Udakam) is so obvious with Vodka. Udaka means water and wodka or Vodka is so closely connected with water that a link between Sanskrit Udaka and Vodka cannot be denied.
Linguistic studies tell us that Slovac/Plolish/Russian languages fall under Balto-Slavic linguistic group which originated from Indo-Europian linguistic group, the same group from which the other languages of antiquity originated like Indo-iranian, Hellenic, Italic, Celtic and the likes.
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