Water Terminology in English and Romanian

Abstract

The main topic touched upon is the structural and semantic peculiarities of water terminology in English and Romanian. We elaborate on theoretical and practical support of structural and semantic peculiarities of water terminology in English and Romanian based on wusteriene and neowusteriene terminology theories. Origins of semasiology and onomasiology are traced and current research areas, principles, and techniques are discussed. We take as a standard the European Water Directive terminology and try to raise the quality of Moldavian water terminology by analyzing the semantic and structural peculiarities of both.