Re: [tied] Finding Ezero.

My vote is with Piotr, but not wishing to depend on my emerging Romaneste

ability, I interrogated the household: _Lac_ it is, and neither of the two native Moldovan speakers present has any knowledge of ezero, ozero..etc.

La Revedere;
Rex H. McTyeire
Bucharest, Romania
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Piotr:

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

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

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?