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in north-western

passing through a picturesque country, in the Orava county. Its source is nowadays the Orava water reservoir whose waters flooded the confluence of Biela (White) Orava and Čierna (Black) Orava in 1953. It flows into the river

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near the village of Kraľovany. It is long and its basin size is .

Etymology

The name "Orava" may be of Pre-Slavic or Slavic origin. Pre-Slavic ''*er-/*or-'': fast, swift (swift river).

Proto-Slavic Proto-Slavic (abbreviated PSl., PS.; also called Common Slavic or Common Slavonic) is the unattested, reconstructed proto-language of all Slavic languages. It represents Slavic speech approximately from the 2nd millennium B.C. through the 6th ...

''*or-'', ''*orati'': to scream, to roar. Slovak rivers ''Revúca'' and ''Hučava'' have the same etymology (a roaring river). The similar names from other Slavic countries are e.g. the

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river and the village Oriava or ''Orzawiec'' (in the river system of

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). The suffix ''-ava'' could be derived from Germanic ''-ahwa'' (water), but it is typical also for older Slovak

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s. The Hungarian name ''Árva'' is a phonetic adaptation similar to ''Okol > Akol'', ''Okoličná > Akalichna'', ''Obuš > Abos'' , etc. The earliest records are ''fl. Arua'' (1287) and ''Oravia'' (1314).

References

External links

Orava on Geonames
Rivers of Slovakia {{Slovakia-river-stub