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Aa, in European place names
 
 
(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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