assaran

Old Prussian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *éźera. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic ѥзєро (jezero), Lithuanian ežeras and Latvian ezers.

Noun

assaran

1. lake
   • c. 1300, Elbing German-Prussian Vocabulary‎^[1] (in Middle High German), page 170, line 60:

     See   Assaran

     Lake   Assaran

Further reading

• G. H. F. Nesselmann (1873) “assaran”, in Thesaurus linguae prussicae. Der preussische Vocabelvorrath [...] (in German), Berlin: Ferd. Dümmlers Verlagsbuchhandlung; Harrwitz & Gossmann, page 9
• Mažiulis, Vytautas (1988) “assaran”, in Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas‎^[2] (in Lithuanian), volume 1, Vilnius: Mokslas, page 104
• Derksen, Rick (2015) “ežeras”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 158