Adam's ale



Adam's ale

A jocular term for water, based on the strong likelihood that Adam hadn't discovered anything stronger (and they call the Garden of Eden a paradise?). Apparently no fans of alliterations, Scots used to refer to water as “Adam's beer.”
See also: ale

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Daniel['dænjəl]
MonikaMO-ni-kah (German), maw-NEE-kah (Polish)German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Slovene, Croatian, Lithuanian, Latvian
Dipak-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Nepali
Taisiyatah-EE-see-yahRussian
Yasin-Arabic, Persian, Urdu
Layton['leitn]