Orava (river)
The Orava (Hungarian: Árva) is a 60.9 km long river in north-western Slovakia passing through a picturesque country, in the Orava county. Its source is nowadays the Orava water reservoir whose waters flooded the confluence of Biela (White) Orava and Čierna (Black) Orava in 1953. It flows into the river Váh near the village of Kraľovany.
Etymology
The name is of Slavic or Pre-Slavic origin. Proto-Slavic *or-, *orati: to scream, to roar (roaring river), Pre-Slavic *er-/*or-: fast, swift (swift river).[1][2] The suffix -ava is typical for older Slovak hydronyms, but it can be derived also from Germanic -ahwa (water).[3] The earliest records are fl. Arua (1287) and Oravia (1314).[1]
References
- ^ a b Majtán, Milan; Rymut, Kazimierz (2006). Hydronymia povodia Oravy [Hydronyms of the Orava River Basin] (PDF) (in Slovak). Bratislava: VEDA, vydavateľstvo Slovenskej akadémie vied. pp. 89–90. ISBN 80-224-0906-5.
- ^ Krško, Jaromír (2009). "Praslovanské apelatíva ako motivanty hydroným povodia Váhu" [Old Slavonic Appellatives as Motivating Words for Hydronyms of the Váh River Basin] (PDF). Slavica Slovaca (in Slovak) (1). Vydavateľstvo Matice Slovenskej: 18.
- ^ Závodný, Andrej (2008). "Distribúcia sufixu -ava v slovenskej hydronýmii" [Distribution of the suffix -ava in the Slovak hydronymy] (PDF). Logos onomastiky (in Slovak) (2). Donetsk National University.
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