Re: [tied] Finding Ezero.

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 4046
Date: 2000-09-26

 
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From: Mark Odegard
To: cybalist@egroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 5:51 AM
Subject: [tied] Finding Ezero.

It's the common Slavic word for 'lake', *ezero/*ozero > Polish jezioro, OCS (j)ezero, Russian ozero. Slavic shares it with Baltic (OPr. assaran [azaran], Lith. eZeras). The corresponding protoform may be reconstructed as *egHer-o-m (the initial is uncertain; it might be *o or *a as well).
 
Piotr
 
 
Incidentally, as a guess, I presume that 'ezero' is the Bulgarian word for 'lake', 'lagoon', or the some such, and that the word also appears to be the word for lake in Romanian too, in the form 'ozero'. There are ozeros in the far southwestern corner of Ukraine, between the Dnister and the Danube.