озеро

Old East Slavic

Alternative forms

  • озоро (ozoro)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (ca. 9th CE) IPA(key): /ˈɔzɛrɔ/
  • (ca. 11th CE) IPA(key): /ˈɔzʲɛrɔ/
  • (ca. 13th CE) IPA(key): /ˈɔzʲɛrɔ/
  • Hyphenation: о‧зе‧ро

Noun

озеро (ozero)

  1. lake
  2. hell

Declension

Descendants

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

References

  • 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] (in Russian), volumes 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 635

Russian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈozʲɪrə]
  • (file)

Noun

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

  1. lake

Declension

Derived terms

  • -озеро (-ozero) (in toponyms in Northern Russia)

Ukrainian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɔzerɔ]
  • (file)

Noun

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

  1. lake (body of water)

Declension

References

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