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Old East Slavic
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)
- lake
- hell
Declension
Declension of озеро (hard o-stem)
Descendants
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
Noun
о́зеро • (ózero) n inan (genitive о́зера, nominative plural озёра, genitive plural озёр, relational adjective озёрный, diminutive озерцо́)
- lake
1975, Виктор Астафьев [Viktor Astafyev], “Бойё”, in Царь-рыба, Moscow: Progress Publishers; English translation from Katharine Judelson, transl., Queen Fish, 1982:Одна́жды пое́хал он на да́льние ту́ндровые озё́ра, на Пя́сину, где стоя́ли рыболове́цкие брига́ды, сплошь почти́ же́нские.- Odnáždy pojéxal on na dálʹnije túndrovyje ozjóra, na Pjásinu, gde stojáli rybolovéckije brigády, splošʹ počtí žénskije.
- He had once set off to the distant lakes in the tundra along the Pyasina where some fishing teams were stationed, for the most part consisting of women.
Declension
Derived terms
- -озеро (-ozero) (in toponyms in Northern Russia)
Ukrainian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *ȅzero, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *éźera.
Pronunciation
Noun
о́зеро • (ózero) n inan (genitive о́зера, nominative plural озе́ра, genitive plural озе́р, relational adjective озе́рний, diminutive озе́рце or озерце́)
- lake (body of water)
Declension
Declension of о́зеро (inan hard neut-form accent-a irreg-plstem)
References