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Old Prussian
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *éźera. Cognates include Old Church Slavonic ѥзєро (jezero), Lithuanian ežeras and Latvian ezers.
Noun
assaran
- lake
c. 1300, Elbing German-Prussian Vocabulary (in Middle High German), page 170, line 60:
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 [Etymological dictionary of Old Prussian] (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