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jezer

//jêzeːr/ | /jêd͡zeːr//
Serbo-Croatiannoun

Definitions

  1. 1.
    archaicdialectallake
    • Nu blizu jes ovdi tih jezer studene i bistre vodice

      But here nearby there's a quiet lake of fresh and clear water

    • bistri iezer oncias sinu

      bistri jezer ončas sinuthen the clear lake shone

    • Ti priplivaj jezer-vodu hladnu [...] Nije lako jezer preplivati. Koliko je u godini dana, Toliko je proždrla junaka

      You swim the cold lake-water … It's not easy to swim the lake. How many days there's in a year, That's how many heroes it has devoured

  2. 2.
    archaicdialectalspring of water
    • [...] od raiske kragl darſcauè Sladki iezer ſuieh miloſti

      od rajske kralj države slatki jezer svijeh milostithe king of the heavenly kingdom, the sweet spring of all the graces

  3. 3.
    archaicdialectalabyss, depth
    • pri neg vode sve provriše, pri neg jezer, sunce mielo, more, nebo i svit biše

      before all the waters started to flow, before the abyss, the sweet sun, the sea, the sky and the world existed

Etymology

Variant of jezero (“lake”). Possibly inherited from Proto-Slavic *ȅzerъ and cognate to Upper Sorbian jězor.

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