Who named water?

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The word water comes from Old English wter, from Proto-Germanic *watar (source also of Old Saxon watar, Old Frisian wetir, Dutch water, Old High German wazzar, German Wasser, vatn, Gothic ???????? (wato), from Proto-Indo-European *wod-or, suffixed form of root *wed- (‘water’; ‘wet’).

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