Woda w językach słowiańskich i tureckich - na przykładzie przysłów języków słowackiego i polskiego oraz tureckiego i karaimskiego

The aim of this paper is to present the perception of water in unrelated languages, used by communities belonging to different cultures, i.e. Slovak and Polish  as representatives of western Slavic languages, whose users belong to Western Civilization on one hand, and on the other hand Turkish, belonging to Oghuz Turkic group of languages whose users adhere to Islam, and the Karaite language, one of Kipchak group of Turkic languages, spoken by Karaims - Turks professing Judaism, without a state of their own. In the expressions we have to deal with the literal and metaphorical understanding of this element.