Re: [tied] Finding Ezero.

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From: Julia Borisenkova

To: Mark Odegard

Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 9:05 PM

Subject: Re: [tied] Finding Ezero.

Romanian has lac 'lake (with an impeccably Romance pedigree).

 

The East Slavic variant ozero has been borrowed into Yiddish (osere).

 

Piotr

 

 

Mark:

 

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.

Julia:

 

"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?