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Widok na Iłżę z zamku Iłża. A view of Iłża from Iłża Castle.
Etymology
The town is named after the river, the attestions of which start off in the later 13th century with Medieval LatinIslza, Izlza, Hislsa, Hyslza and the like and only from the 15th century have dropped the ⟨s⟩ in the stem before the ł, apparently based on a Proto-Slavic*Islъža,[1] from Proto-Indo-European*h₁eys-(“to rush, to move quickly”),[2] + *-ъlъ + *-ъža(*-ŭɡi̯a suffix retained in river names).
^ Udolph, Jürgen (1989) “Zum Flußnamen Iłżanka”, in Hydronimia Slowianska. Materialy z IX konferencji Komisji Onomastyki Slowiańskiej przy Międzynarodowym Komitecie Slawistów Mogilany, 16–18 IX 1986 r. (in German), Warsaw · Kraków · Gdańsk · Łódż: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, pages 197–203
