Re: [tied] Finding Ezero.

How can LOUGJA be related to lake?
Lake and Loch came from *IE laku-, cf. Latin lacus, OE lagu, Irish loch,
Greek lakkos.

Joao SL
Rio

----- Original Message -----
From: Julia Borisenkova <jborisenkova@...>
To: Mark Odegard <cybalist@egroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Finding Ezero.


> Hello Mark,
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> you wrote:
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> 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.
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> "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.
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> MO> Mark .
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> Best regards,
> Julia mailto:jborisenkova@...
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