A waterfall is a River which falls from a mountain-side;
but ornaments are of gold. (Norwegian)
Water is eddying stream
and broad geysir
and land of the fish. (Icelandic)
The ocean seems interminable to men,
if they venture on the rolling bark
and the waves of the sea terrify them
and the courser of the deep heed not its bridle. (Anglo-Saxon)
Flow, fertility, renewal, dreams, the subconscious, thirst slaked: water.