Дністер

From Old East Slavic Дънѣстръ (Dŭněstrŭ), ultimately (compare Byzantine Greek Δάναστρις (Dánastris) and Late Latin Danaster) from Old Ossetic *dānu nazdya (“the close river”) (the Dniepr being the far one). The first element is from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰánwati << *dʰénh₂- ~ dʰn̥h₂-u- << Proto-Indo-European *dʰenh₂- (“to flow”), found in several other river names such as Danube and Донец (Donec); more at Danube.

• IPA^(key): [dʲnʲiˈstɛr]

Дністе́р • (Dnistér) m inan (genitive Дністра́, uncountable, relational adjective дністро́вський)

1. Dniester (major river in Eastern Europe, flowing through Ukraine and Moldova to the Black Sea)

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