also came to be called vodka.

Etymology

The word vodka in English was borrowed from Russian and it can be literally translated as 'little water'; it is a diminutive of the Russian word voda ('water').

In English literature, the word vodka first appeared around the late 18th century. In a book of travels published in English in 1780 (presumably, a translation from German), Johann Gottlieb Georgi correctly explained that "kabak in the Russian

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