| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Aa, in European place names |
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| (ä) (KEY) [from a word for water of the same Indo-European root as Lat. aqua], name of many small streams of N Europe and Switzerland. Aa, or a derivative of it, is a component part of hundreds of European place names. |
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