Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/ezero

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *éźera.

Noun edit

*ȅzero n^[1]

lake

Inflection edit

Declension of *ȅzero (hard o-stem, accent paradigm c)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*ȅzero	*ȅzerě	*ezerà
genitive	*ȅzera	*ezerù	*ezèrъ
dative	*ȅzeru	*ezeromà	*ezeròmъ
accusative	*ȅzero	*ȅzerě	*ezerà
instrumental	ȅzerъmь, ȅzeromь^*	*ezeromà	*ezerý
locative	*ȅzerě	*ezerù	*ezerě̃xъ
vocative	*ȅzero	*ȅzerě	*ezerà

^* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

Alternative forms edit

*ȅzerъ

Descendants edit

East Slavic:
- Old East Slavic: озеро (ozero)
  - Belarusian: во́зера (vózjera)
  - Russian: о́зеро (ózero), о́зер (ózer) (dialectal)
  - Ukrainian: о́зеро (ózero)
  - → Yiddish: אָזערע (ozere)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic: ѥзєро (jezero)
  - → Old East Slavic: езеро (ezero)
- Bulgarian: е́зеро (ézero), е́зер (ézer) (Sofia dialect)
- Macedonian: езеро (ezero)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: је̏зеро
  
  Latin script: jȅzero
- Slovene: jẹ̑zero (tonal orthography), jẹ̑zer
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: jezero
  - Czech: jezero
- Kashubian: jezoro
- Old Polish: jeziero
  - Polish: jezioro
- Slovak: jazero
- Slovincian: jêzôrô
- Sorbian:
  - Lower Sorbian: jazoro
  - Upper Sorbian: jězor

Non-Slavic:
- → Romanian: iezer

References edit

^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*ȅzero; *ȅzerъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 148

[1] Derksen, Rick (2008) “*ȅzero; *ȅzerъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 148

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