Tisza
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Definitions
- 1 A river in Central Europe, flowing through Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Ukraine.
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More examples"From a gold mine in Baia Mare, Romania, the Tisza River was contaminated with a release of 180 times the deadly dose of cyanide. It is estimated that 1,700 tonnes of fish were killed."
Etymology
From Hungarian Tisza. Known in Latin as Pathissus, Ancient Greek Πάθισσος (Páthissos), perhaps from Thracian–Dacian *patis (“water”), from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh₁s; compare Sanskrit पाथस् (pāthas, “water”), Sanskrit पन्था (pánthā-), Ancient Greek πόντος (póntos, “the sea”). The word may have been reanalyzed by the Slavic tribes as composed of Proto-Slavic *po (“by, at”) + *tisъ (“yew”) (compare Russian тис (tis)). More at Tisza.
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