Old East Slavic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ȅzero, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *éźera. Doublet of езеро (ezero), a borrowing from Old Church Slavonic.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɔzɛrɔ//ˈɔzʲɛrɔ//ˈɔzʲɛrɔ/
  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /ˈɔzɛrɔ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /ˈɔzʲɛrɔ/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ˈɔzʲɛrɔ/

  • Hyphenation: о‧зе‧ро

Noun

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озеро (ozero)

  1. lake
  2. hell

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Descendants

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  • Belarusian: во́зера (vózjera)
  • Russian: о́зеро (ózero), о́зер (ózer) (dialectal)
  • Ukrainian: о́зеро (ózero)

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  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “озеро”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎[1] (in Russian), volumes 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 635

Russian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old East Slavic озеро (ozero), from Proto-Slavic *ȅzero, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *éźera.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈozʲɪrə]
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Noun

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о́зеро (ózeron inan (genitive о́зера, nominative plural озёра, genitive plural озёр, relational adjective озёрный, diminutive озерцо́)

  1. lake
    • 1975, Виктор Астафьев [Viktor Astafyev], “Бойё”, in Царь-рыба, Moscow: Progress Publishers; English translation from Katharine Judelson, transl., Queen Fish, 1982:
      Одна́жды пое́хал он на да́льние ту́ндровые озё́ра, на Пя́сину, где стоя́ли рыболове́цкие брига́ды, сплошь почти́ же́нские.
      Odnáždy pojéxal on na dálʹnije túndrovyje ozjóra, na Pjásinu, gde stojáli rybolovéckije brigády, splošʹ počtí žénskije.
      He had once set off to the distant lakes in the tundra along the Pyasina where some fishing teams were stationed, for the most part consisting of women.

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Ukrainian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Slavic *ȅzero, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *éźera.

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Noun

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о́зеро (ózeron inan (genitive о́зера, nominative plural озе́ра, genitive plural озе́р, relational adjective озе́рний, diminutive озе́рце or озерце́)

  1. lake (body of water)

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