Tisza

See also: tisza

English

Alternative forms

• Tisa

Etymology

From Hungarian Tisza. Known in Latin as Pathissus, perhaps from Thracian–Dacian *patis (“water”); compare Sanskrit पाथस् (pāthas, “water”). The word may have been reanalyzed by the Slavic tribes as composed of Proto-Slavic *po (“by, at”) + *tisъ (“yew”) (compare Russian тис (tis)).

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Proper noun

Tisza

1. A river in Central Europe, mainly flowing through Hungary and Serbia

Synonyms

• Theiss, Tisa

Translations

a river

• Armenian: Տիսա (Tisa)
• Czech: Tisa f
• German: Theiß (de) f
• Hungarian: Tisza (hu)
• Italian: Tibisco m
• Polish: Cisa (pl) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Romanian: Tisa
• Russian: Ти́са (ru) f (Tísa)
• Serbo-Croatian: Тиса f, Tisa (sh) f
• Slovak: Tisa f
• Ukrainian: Ти́са f (Týsa)

Anagrams

• tazis, zatis