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Iłża
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Iłżą
English
thumb|An aerial view of Iłża.|upright=1.15
Etymology
Borrowed from en pl Iłża.
Proper noun
en town co/Radom County voi/Masovian Voivodeship c/Poland.
Translations
town in Poland
Polish: pl Iłża f
Russian: ru Илжа
Polish
pl:
thumb|Widok na Iłżę z zamku Iłża.A view of Iłża from Iłża Castle.|upright=1.15
Etymology
The town is named after the river, the attestions of which start off in the later 13th century with la-med Islza, la-med Izlza, la-med Hislsa, la-med Hyslza and the like and only from the 15th century have dropped the ⟨s⟩ in the stem before the ł, apparently based on a pl sla-pro *Islъža,de 1989 de:Jürgen Udolph https://adw-goe.de/fileadmin/forschungsprojekte/ortsnamen_rhein_elbe/dokumente/Publikationen_Udolph_PDF/1986-1990/106._Udolph_Zum_Flussnamen_Ilzanka_1989.pdf Warsaw · Kraków · Gdańsk · Łódż Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk Udolph Jürgen 197–203 Zum Flußnamen Iłżanka Hydronimia Slowianska. Materialy z IX konferencji Komisji Onomastyki Slowiańskiej przy Międzynarodowym Komitecie Slawistów Mogilany, 16–18 IX 1986 r. from pl ine-pro *h₁eys- to rush, to move quickly,as also the Rhine tributary nl IJssel, Tirol’s de Isel, de Eisack / de Isarco and de Isar, the Elbe tributary cs Jizera ending in Central Bohemia, and Francophony’s fr Isère and fr Oise sla-pro *-ъlъ 1 sla-pro *-ъža 1 *-ŭɡi̯a suffix retained in river names.
Pronunciation
pl-Iłża.ogg;LL-Q809 (pol)-Olaf-Iłża.wav
Proper noun
f
pl town co/Radom County voi/Masovian Voivodeship c/Poland Iłża
pl Iłżanka a tributary of Vistula on which the town Iłża lies
Declension
s
Derived terms
pl adjective iłżecki
pl nouns iłżanin iłżanka
pl proper nouns Iłżanka Iłżecka Iłżecki
References
Further reading