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 (jezero)
    - 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

References

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

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