# озеро
## Old East Slavic
### Alternative forms

* озоро (ozoro)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

озеро (ozero)
* lake
* hell

#### Descendants

* Belarusian: во́зера (vózjera)
* Carpathian Rusyn: о́зеро (ózero)
* 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), volume 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 635

## Pannonian Rusyn
### Etymology

Borrowed from Carpathian Rusyn о́зеро (ózero) or earlier Old Ruthenian о́зеро (ózero), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *ezero. Displaced Old Slovak jazaro, jazero, jezaro, jezero, which would have likely yielded *єжеро (*ježero) or *яжеро (*jažero).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɔˈzɛrɔ]
* Rhymes: -ɛrɔ
* Hyphenation: озе‧ро

### Noun

озеро (ozero) n (diminutive озерочко or озерко, related adjective озерски)
* lake

#### Declension
### References

* Fejsa, M., Šlemender, M., Čelʹovski, S. (2022) “lake”, in Анґлийско-руски словнїк [English-Rusyn Dictionary] (in Pannonian Rusyn), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy; Ruska matka, →ISBN, page 162

## Russian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈozʲɪrə]
* Audio:(file)

### 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

$^△$Irregular.
$^△$Irregular.

#### Derived terms

* Мойна́кское о́зеро (Mojnákskoje ózero)
* -озеро (-ozero) (in toponyms in Northern Russia)

## Ukrainian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɔzerɔ]
* Audio:(file)

### 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
### References

* Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “озеро”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
* “озеро”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)
* “озеро”, in Словник.ua [Slovnyk.ua] (in Ukrainian)