Uzh River
Sign in to saveThe Uzh (; ; ; ) is a river in western Ukraine and eastern Slovakia, flowing from the Ukrainian Carpathians through the city of Uzhhorod, the administrative center of the Zakarpattia Oblast of Ukraine, to the river Laborec in the Eastern Slovak Lowland.
Key facts
- River.name
- Uzh
- River.image
- Набережна та ясен.JPG
- River.image_caption
- The Uzh in Uzhhorod, Ukraine, with the Ash of Masaryk in the center
- River.source1_location
- Uzhok pass, Ukraine
- River.mouth_location
- Laborec
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- Country
- River.subdivision_name1
- Ukraine, Slovakia
- River.length_km
- 127
- River.basin_size_km2
- 2750
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The Uzh (; ; ; ) is a river in western Ukraine and eastern Slovakia, flowing from the Ukrainian Carpathians through the city of Uzhhorod, the administrative center of the Zakarpattia Oblast of Ukraine, to the river Laborec in the Eastern Slovak Lowland.
== Etymology == thumb|Adalbert Erdeli: River Uzh, 1930. During this period, the river ran wholly in Czechoslovakia. Etymologists disagree about the origin of the name of the river. Some would derive it from the Slavic name of the grass snake (Ukrainian and Belarusian вуж, Russian уж, from Old East Slavic ꙋжь, Proto-Slavic ǫžь), which is abundant in the valley of the river. However, the expected cognate form in Slovak would be *Už (compare Slovak užovka "adder") while the actual Slovak form of the name is Uh. Another possibility is that the name derives from the proto-Slavic root *ǫgъlъ meaning "angle" or "corner" (the etymological source of Ukrainian вугол, Slovak uhol).