Where does “jezero” come from?

jezero (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Hungarian ezer, from Iranian unknown Iranian source.

jezero (Serbo-Croatian): lake

Definitions

  1. lake

Ancestry of “jezero”, step by step

jezero traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Hungarian ezer

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungarianezerone thousand
2Iranianunknown Iranian source—

via Proto-Slavic ȅzero

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Slavicȅzerolake
2Proto-Balto-Slavic*éźeranlake

Words derived from “jezero”

Every word from Iranian unknown Iranian source →Every word from Hungarian ezer →