ȅzerъ

ȅzero; ȅzerъ Grammatical information: n. o; m. o Accent paradigm: c Proto-Slavic meaning: `lake'

Page in Trubačev: VI 33-34

Old Church Slavic:

jezero `lake' [n o];

jezerъ (Zogr., Ass.) `lake' [Accm o]

Russian:

ózero `lake' [n o]

Czech:

jezero `lake' [n o]

Slovak:

jazero `lake' [n o];

jeźer (E. dial.) `lake' [m o]

Polish:

jezioro `lake' [n o]

Upper Sorbian:

jězer `lake' [n o]

Serbo-Croatian:

jȅzero `lake' [n o], jezèra [Nom p];

Čak. jȅzero (Vrgada) `lake' [n o], jezerå̃ [Nom p];

Čak. jȅzero?? (Novi) `lake' [n o], jȅzera [Nom p];

jȅzēr `lake' [m o]

Slovene:

ję̑zerọ `lake' [n o];

ję̑zer `lake' [m o];

jezer `lake' [f i]

Bulgarian:

ézero `lake' [n o]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: éźero

Lithuanian:

ẽžeras `lake' [m o] 3^b

Latvian:

ęzęrs `lake' [m o];

ęzars `lake' [m o]

Old Prussian:

assaran `lake' [n]

Indo-European reconstruction: h₁eǵʰ-(e)r-o-

IE meaning: lake

Certainty: -

Comments: In view of "Rozwadowski's change", the reconstruction of the anlaut offers a number of alternatives (*h₂e-, *h₃e- , *Ho-), but not if the etymon under discussion belongs to *ězъ `balk, weir', which in my opinion is the case. A cognate outside Balto-Slavic is Arm. ezr `bank, border, limit' < *h₁(e)ǵʰ- (-> *ězъ for the semantic apects of the etymology). Note that the short initial vowel of *jȅzero requires the reconstruction of an aspirated velar anyhow (Winter's law). The connection with the Greek mythological river Α᾽χέρων is dubious.

Other cognates:

Arm. ezr `edge, border, bank' [r]