Editing Maritsa (section)

==Names==
The earliest known name of the river is {{Lang|grc|Εύρος|italic=yes}} ({{Transliteration|grc|Euros}}, [[Alcman]], 7th–6th century BC).<ref name="georg">{{cite book|last1=Georgiev|first1=Vladimir Ivanov Georgiev|title=Introduction to the History of the Indo-European Languages (1981, p. 351)|year=1981|publisher=Publishing House of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |isbn=9789535172611|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xmZiAAAAMAAJ&q=Alcman}}</ref> [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]] {{Lang|ine-x-proto|*h₁wérus|italic=yes}} and [[Ancient Greek]] {{lang|grc|εὐρύς}} meant "wide".<ref name="georg" /> The Proto-Indo-European [[consonant cluster]] *''-wr-'' shifted in [[Thracian language|Thracian]] to ''-br-'', creating the Thracian name {{lang|txh|Ebros}}.<ref name="georg" /> Thereafter, the river began to be known as {{lang|grc|Ἕβρος}} ({{Transliteration|grc|Hébros}}) in Greek and {{Lang|la|Hebrus|italic=yes}} in Latin.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Florov|first1=Nicholas|last2=Florov|first2=Irina|title=Three-thousand-year-old Hat|year=2001|location=Michigan University|isbn=9780968848708|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6kZoAAAAMAAJ&q=evros+original+thracian+river}}</ref> Rather than an origin as 'wide river', an alternative hypothesis is that is borrowed from Thracian {{Lang|txh|ebros|italic=yes}} meaning 'splasher'.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Duridanov|first=Ivan|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18925921|title=Die Sprache der Thraker|date=1985|publisher=Hieronymus Verlag|isbn=978-3-88893-031-7|location=Neuried|oclc=18925921}}</ref>

While the name {{lang|grc|Ἕβρος}} ({{Transliteration|grc|Hébros}}) was used in [[Ancient Greek]], the name {{lang|grc|Μαρίτσα}} ({{Transliteration|grc|Maritsa}}) had become standard before the ancient form {{lang|grc|Ἕβρος}} was restituted in [[Modern Greek]] as {{lang|el|Έβρος}} (now: {{Transliteration|el|Évros}}).<ref>Schramm, Gottfried (1981): Eroberer und Eingesessene. Geographische Lehnnamen als Zeugen der Geschichte Südosteuropas im ersten Jahrtausend n. Chr. Stuttgart: Hiersemann, pp.290f.  Referenced in Carsten Peust, [https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/view/1749/2969#_ftn71 How Old Are the River Names of Europe?], Linguistik Online, 2015</ref>  The name {{Transliteration|grc|Maritsa}} may derive from a mountain near the mouth of the river known in antiquity as {{lang|grc|Μηρισός}} or {{lang|grc|Μήριζος}}, Latinized as {{lang|la|Merit(h)us}}.<ref name=georg/>{{Unreliable source?|date=October 2021|reason=This sentence is a direct quote from the source, but no other source for this etymological relationship or the existence of a mountain with this name can be found. See Talk page}}