water sickness
DropsyDropsy.
» Dirty drinking water can cause sickness.
Verunreinigtes Trinkwasser kann Krankheiten verursachen.
Meaning
1 senses(archaic, rare, uncountable)Dropsy.
Examples
1 sentencesDirty drinking water can cause sickness.
deVerunreinigtes Trinkwasser kann Krankheiten verursachen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Origin
From Middle English watersiknesse, wæterseocnesse, from Old English wætersēocnes (“dropsy”From Middle English watersiknesse, wæterseocnesse, from Old English wætersēocnes (“dropsy”), equivalent to water + sickness.
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Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable