Iłża

See also: Iłżą

English

An aerial view of Iłża.

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish Iłża.

Proper noun

Iłża

1. A town in Radom County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.

Translations

town in Poland

• Polish: Iłża (pl) f

Polish

Widok na Iłżę z zamku Iłża.
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, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eys- (“to rush, to move quickly”), +‎ *-ъlъ +‎ *-ъža (*-ŭɡi̯a suffix retained in river names).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiw.ʐa/

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• Rhymes: -iwʐa
• Syllabification: Ił‧ża

Proper noun

Iłża f

1. Iłża (a town in Radom County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland)
2. Obsolete form of Iłżanka (“a tributary of Vistula on which the town Iłża lies”).

Declension

Declension of Iłża

	singular
nominative	Iłża
genitive	Iłży
dative	Iłży
accusative	Iłżę
instrumental	Iłżą
locative	Iłży
vocative	Iłżo

Derived terms

adjective

• iłżecki

 

nouns

• iłżanin
• iłżanka

 

proper nouns

• Iłżanka
• Iłżecka
• Iłżecki

 

Further reading

• Iłża in Polish dictionaries at PWN