Editing Southern Bug (section)

== Nomenclature and etymology ==
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|{{langx|uk|Південний Буг|Pivdennyi Buh}}
|{{langx|pl|Boh}}
|{{langx|ro|Bugul de Sud}} or just {{lang|ro|Bug}}
|{{langx|ru|Южный Буг|Yuzhny Bug}}
|Ottoman {{langx|tr|Aksu}}
}}

[[Herodotus]] (c. 484–425 BCE) refers to the river using its [[ancient Greek]] name: Hypanis.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YTCrx1KB3HQC&pg=PA165 |title=The Histories | page = 165 |date= 2009-01-30 |isbn=9781596258778 |access-date= 2013-01-05|author1= Herodotus|publisher=Digireads.com }}</ref> During the [[Migration Period]] of the 5th to the 8th centuries CE the Southern Bug represented a major obstacle to all the migrating peoples in the area. In his work [[Getica]], [[Jordanes]] calls the river '''Bogossola'''.<ref>[https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Bogossola%22+river+Jordanes&sca_esv=5c8da1462f10d2e2&biw=1358&bih=608&sxsrf=ADLYWIJUNVfV9rllsiy6lvXYKeXUeoBk7A%3A1730751109790&ei=hSopZ4njL-newN4PpYSuiQ4&ved=0ahUKEwjJud-ovsOJAxVpL9AFHSWCK-EQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=%22Bogossola%22+river+Jordanes&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiGiJCb2dvc3NvbGEiIHJpdmVyIEpvcmRhbmVzMgUQIRigATIFECEYoAEyBRAhGKABMgUQIRigATIFECEYoAFIzglQ5wJYowVwAXgAkAEAmAHRAaABmQOqAQMyLTK4AQPIAQD4AQH4AQKYAgOgAr4DwgILEAAYgAQYsAMYogTCAgsQABiwAxiiBBiJBZgDAIgGAZAGBZIHBTEuMC4yoAfcBw&sclient=gws-wiz-serp Google search ("Bogossola" river Jordanes)].</ref><ref name=bogossola>[https://web.archive.org/web/20180612141806/http://www.tourclub.com.ua/ru/info/local-lore/southern_buh/river_peculiarities Southern Bug (Южный Буг)]. www.tourclub.com.ua.</ref> Mentioning of Bogossola could also be found in works of [[Guido of Pisa]].<ref name=bogossola/>

The long-standing local Slavic name of the river, ''Boh'' ([[Cyrillic]]: Бог),<ref name=eou/> according to [[Zbigniew Gołąb]] as ''*bugъ''/''*buga'' derives from Indo-European verbal root ''*bheug-'' (having cognates in old [[Proto-Germanic language|Germanic]] word ''*bheugh-'' etc. with meaning of "bend, turn, moves away"), with hypothetical original meaning of "pertaining to a (river) bend", and derivatives in Russian ''búga'' ("low banks of a river, overgrown with bushes"), Polish ''bugaj'' ("bushes or woods in a river valley or on a steep river bank"), Latvian ''bauga'' ("marshy place by a river").<ref>{{citation |first=Zbigniew |last=Gołąb |author-link = Zbigniew Gołąb |year=1992 |title=The Origins of the Slavs: A Linguist's View |url=https://archive.nyu.edu/handle/2451/39006 |location=[[Columbus, Ohio|Columbus]] |publisher=Slavica |pages=258–260 |isbn=9780893572310}}</ref> The Polish linguist [[Jan Michał Rozwadowski]] was explaining that the name derived from the Indo-European root "water", "source", "swamp".<ref name=bogossola/> The 17th-century French military engineer and geographer [[Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan]] recorded the name of the river as ''Bog''.<ref>
{{cite book
| last1                 = Le Vasseur de Beauplan
| first1                = Guillaume
| author-link1          = Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan
| year              = 1651
| editor1-last          = Golitsyn
| editor1-first         = Avgustin Petrovich
| title                 = Description de l'Vkranie depvis les confins de la Moscovie jvsqu'avx limites de la Transylvanie
|trans-title=Description of Ukraine from the borders of Muscovy to the limits of Transylvania
| url                   = https://books.google.com/books?id=-isEAAAAYAAJ
| series                = Bibliothèque russienne
| language              = fr
| location              = Paris
| publisher             = J. Techener
| publication-date      = 1861
| page                  = 57
| access-date            = 2014-10-30
| quote                 = A trois lieues audessus de Douczakow [Ochakiv] est l'emboucheure du Bog où se trouve vne isle en forme de triangle, viron de demi lieue de long le trauers de Semenwiruk. [...] Au dessus de Semenwirut, il y a sur le Bog Winaradnakricza, qui est vne fontaine sur un précipice, lieu beau et propre à habiter, tant pour le bois qui est à commodité que pour les moulins qui s'y pourraient faire.}}</ref>