GG: n

S: FAO – http://www.fao.org/docrep/x5624e/x5624e04.htm (last access: 7 November 2013); CDC – https://www.cdc.gov/drinking-water/causes/index.html (last access: 23 November  2024).

N: 1.- tap (n): “a light stroke, as with the fingers; a gentle blow,” mid-14c., a noun from tap (v.1) or from Old French tape, from the verb in French.

It is attested from 1680s as “piece of leather or metal plate fastened to the bottom of a shoe or boot in strengthening or repairing it,” the sense in tap-dance. Tap (n.) as short for tap-dance is by 1944.

– water (n): Old English wæter, from Proto-Germanic *watr- (source also of Old Saxon watar, Old Frisian wetir, Dutch water, Old High German wazzar, German Wasser, Old Norse vatn, Gothic wato “water”), from PIE *wod-or, suffixed form of root *wed- (1) “water; wet.”

2. Water Distribution (Water Supply): tap-water, running water, piped water.

• Water supplied for domestic use by means of a plumbing system, rather than having to be carried from an external source.

3. According to FAO’s website and WHO’s website, piped water is used as a synonym for tap water.

S: 1. Etymonline – https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=tap+water (last access: 23 November 2024). 2. TERMIUM PLUS (last access: 23 November 2024). 3. FAO – http://www.fao.org/nr/water/issues/scarcity.html (last access: 7 November 2013); WHO – http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/924156251X/en/ (last access: 7 November 2013); FCB.

SYN: piped water

S: FAO – http://www.fao.org/nr/water/issues/scarcity.html (last access: 7 November 2013); WHO – http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/924156251X/en/ (last access: 7 November 2013), TERMIUM PLUS (last access: 23 November 2024).

CR: drinking water