Dniester

English

Dniester basin

Etymology

From Russian Днестр (Dnestr), pre-reform orthography Днѣстръ (Dněstr), ultimately (compare Byzantine Greek Δάναστρις (Dánastris) and Late Latin Danaster) from Old Ossetic (Sarmatian) *dānu nazdya "the close river" (the Dnieper being the far one). The first element is from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰánwati << *dʰénh₂- ~ dʰn̥h₂-u- << Proto-Indo-European *dʰenh₂- (“to flow”), found in several other river names such as Danube and Донец (Donec); more at Danube.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈniːstəɹ/

Proper noun

Dniester

1. A river in Eastern Europe, flowing through Ukraine and Moldova to the Black Sea.

Synonyms

• Dnister

Related terms

• Transnistria

Translations

river in Europe

• Armenian: Դնեստր (hy) (Dnestr)
• Belarusian: Дне́стар m (Dnjéstar), Днестр (Dnjestr)
• Czech: Dněstr (cs) m
• French: Dniestr (fr) m
• Georgian: დნესტრი (dnesṭri)
• German: Dnister (de) m
• Greek: Δνείστερος (el) m (Dneísteros)

  Ancient Greek: Τύρας m (Túras)

• Hungarian: Dnyeszter (hu)
• Irish: An Dnístir f
• Latin: Danaster m, Tyras m
• Macedonian: Днестар m (Dnestar)
• Nogai: Тарку (Tarku)
• Polish: Dniestr (pl) m
• Romanian: Nistru
• Russian: Днестр (ru) m (Dnestr)
• Turkish: Dinyester, Özi, Turla
• Ukrainian: Дністе́р (uk) m (Dnistér)
• Yiddish: נעסטער (nester)

References

• Mallory, J.P; Mair, Victor H. (2000). The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 106.
• Abajev, V. I. (1949) Осетинский язык и фольклор I [Ossetian Language and Folklore I]‎^[1] (in Russian), Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 236

Anagrams

• Neiderts, desertin', disenter, indesert, inserted, nerdiest, resident, sentried, sintered, tendries, trendies