Hello Mark,
you wrote:
MO> 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
MO> 'ozero'. There are ozeros in the far southwestern corner of Ukraine, between the Dnister and the Danube.
"Ezero" is South-Slavic word for "lake", and "ozero" is Russian
(Eastern-Slavic) form of this word, I have never heard that it is
Romanian, is it so?
In Slavic languages we have the word "Luzha" (from pre-Slavic *lougja), which relates to "lake",
"Loch" etc, it means a little pool.
MO> The way river names change their names, country-to-country, and era-to-era makes for a great deal of confusion.
MO> Mark .
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