Dniester

From Russian Днестр (Dnestr), pre-reform orthography Днѣстръ (Dněstr), ultimately (compare Byzantine Greek Δάναστρις (Dánastris) and Late Latin Danaster) from Old Ossetic (Sarmatian) *dānu nazdya "the close river" (the Dnieper 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): /ˈniːstəɹ/

Dniester

1. A river in Eastern Europe, flowing through Ukraine and Moldova to the Black Sea.

• Dnister

• Transnistria

• Mallory, J.P; Mair, Victor H. (2000). The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 106.
• Abajev, V. I. (1949) Осетинский язык и фольклор I [Ossetian Language and Folklore I]‎ (in Russian), Moscow and Leningrad: Academy Press, page 236

• Neiderts, desertin', disenter, indesert, inserted, nerdiest, resident, sentried, sintered, tendries, trendies