Etymology

Morava

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Today it means: A left tributary of the Danube in Central Europe, flowing through Moravia in the Czech Republic on the border with Slovakia and then along the border of Austria. Full definition →

Proto-Indo-European *móri
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*móri“sea, standing water”
  2. English todayMorava

Related to Czech Moře, German March and Latin Marus, both deriving ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“sea, standing water”). The river was first documented as Maraha in an 892 deed.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Indo-European*móri all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.