Iłża
See also: Iłżą
English
An aerial view of Iłża.
Polish
Widok na Iłżę z zamku Iłża.
A view of Iłża from Iłża Castle.
A view of Iłża from Iłża Castle.
Etymology
The town is named after the river, the attestions of which start off in the later 13th century with Medieval Latin Islza, Izlza, Hislsa, Hyslza and the like and only from the 15th century have dropped the ⟨s⟩ in the stem before the ł, apparently based on a Proto-Slavic *Islъža,[1] from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eys- (“to rush, to move quickly”),[2] + *-ъlъ + *-ъža (*-ŭɡi̯a suffix retained in river names).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈiw.ʐa/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -iwʐa
- Syllabification: Ił‧ża
Proper noun
Iłża f
- Iłża (a town in Radom County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland)
- Obsolete form of Iłżanka (“a tributary of Vistula on which the town Iłża lies”).
Declension
References
- Udolph, Jürgen (1989) “Zum Flußnamen Iłżanka”, in Hydronimia Slowianska. Materialy z IX konferencji Komisji Onomastyki Slowiańskiej przy Międzynarodowym Komitecie Slawistów Mogilany, 16–18 IX 1986 r. (in German), Warsaw · Kraków · Gdańsk · Łódż: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, pages 197–203
- as also the Rhine tributary IJssel, Tirol’s Isel, Eisack / Isarco and Isar, the Elbe tributary Jizera ending in Central Bohemia, and Francophony’s Isère and Oise
Further reading
- Iłża in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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