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

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *éźera.

Noun

*ȅzero n

1. lake

Inflection

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

• *ȅzerъ

Descendants

• East Slavic:
  • Old East Slavic: озеро (ozero)
    • Old Ruthenian: о́зеро (ózero), во́зеро (vózero)
      • Belarusian: во́зера (vózjera)
      • Ukrainian: о́зеро (ózero)
    • Russian: о́зеро (ózero); о́зер (ózer) (dialectal)
    • → Yiddish: אָזערע (ozere)
• South Slavic:
  • Old Church Slavonic: ѥзєро (jezero)
    • Bulgarian: е́зеро (ézero), е́зер (ézer) (Sofia dialect)
    • Macedonian: езеро (ezero)
    • → Old East Slavic: езеро (ezero)
      • Old Ruthenian: єзеро (jezero)
    • → Romanian: iezer
  • Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: је̏зеро

    Latin script: jȅzero

  • Slovene: jẹ̑zero (tonal orthography), jẹ̑zer
• West Slavic:
  • Old Czech: jezero
    • Czech: jezero
  • Old Polish: jeziero
    • Polish: jezioro
  • Pomeranian:
    • Kashubian: jezoro
    • Slovincian: jêzôrô
  • Slovak: jazero
  • Sorbian:
    • Lower Sorbian: jazoro
    • Upper Sorbian: jězor

Further reading

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “о́зеро”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress