The Malčius is a river of

Kėdainiai district municipality Kėdainiai () is one of the oldest List of cities in Lithuania, cities in Lithuania. It is located north of Lithuania's second largest city Kaunas on the banks of the Nevėžis River. Kėdainiai were first mentioned in the 1372 Livonian Chronicle ...

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, central

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. It flows for and has a basin area of . It starts in the

Lančiūnava-Šventybrastis Forest The Lančiūnava-Šventybrastis Forest () is a forest in Kėdainiai District Municipality, central Lithuania, located north east to Kėdainiai, around Lančiūnava and Šventybrastis villages. It covers an area of . It consists of smaller forests ...

and flows mostly southwards. It meets the

Obelis The Obelis is a river in the Ukmergė district municipality and Kėdainiai district municipality in central Lithuania. It flows for and has a basin area of . It is a left tributary of the Nevėžis into which it flows near Kėdainiai. The river ...

river (from the right side) by Aristavėlė village. The entire course is channelized. Malčius passes through the villages of Pliupai, Stebuliai, Katkai,

Aristava Aristava (formerly ''Lukšiakaimis'', , ) is a village in Kėdainiai district municipality, in Kaunas County, in central Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the village had a population of 489 people. It is located from Kėdainiai, next to th ...

and Aristavėlė. Several

ponds A pond is a small, still, land-based body of water formed by pooling inside a depression, either naturally or artificially. A pond is smaller than a lake and there are no official criteria distinguishing the two, although defining a pond t ...

(Malčius, Aristavėlė 1st, Aristavėlė 2nd) are on the Malčius river. The

hydronym A hydronym (from , , "water" and , , "name") is a type of toponym that designates a proper name of a body of water. Hydronyms include the proper names of rivers and streams, lakes and ponds, swamps and marshes, seas and oceans. As a subset of top ...

derives from Lithuanian

verbs A verb is a word that generally conveys an action (''bring'', ''read'', ''walk'', ''run'', ''learn''), an occurrence (''happen'', ''become''), or a state of being (''be'', ''exist'', ''stand''). In the usual description of English, the basic fo ...

''malšyti, malšinti'' ('to still, to quieten'), ''malšti'' ('to become still, to relent').

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