Tisza

• Tisa

From Hungarian Tisza. Known in Latin as Pathissus, perhaps from Thracian–Dacian *patis (“water”); compare Sanskrit पाथस् (pāthas, “water”). The word may have been reanalyzed by the Slavic tribes as composed of Proto-Slavic *po (“by, at”) + *tisъ (“yew”) (compare Russian тис (tis)).

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Tisza

1. a river in Central Europe, mainly flowing through Hungary and Serbia

• Theiss, Tisa

• tazis, zatis