The Sula (; ) is a left

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of the

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with a total length of and a

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of . The river flows into the Dnieper through the Kremenchuk Reservoir, with which it forms a large

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with numerous islands, on which rare kinds of birds live. An important tributary is the Uday, smaller ones being Orzhytsya, Sliporid, Romen and

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. Large cities located on the river are Romny, Lokhvytsia and Lubny.

Etymology

The river's name evokes slow or muddy waters considering the words it is related to: Lithuanian/ Latvian ''sulà'' "birch sap",

Old Prussian Old Prussian is an extinct West Baltic language belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European languages, which was once spoken by the Old Prussians, the Baltic peoples of the Prussian region. The language is called Old Prussian to av ...

''sulo'' "curdled milk", Norwegian dialectal ''saula'' "dirt",

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'' súrā'' "spiritous liquor", and

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''hurā'' "intoxicating drink,

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". Another etymology of the

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''Sula'' is the Turkic , 'filled with water, wet'.Yu.N. Drozdov, 2008, ''Türkic Ethnonymy Of European Peoples'', Moscow, "Reliance", , p.247

References

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