Editing Tatra Mountains (section)

== Etymology ==
The first written record of the name is from 999, when the Bohemian Duke [[Boleslaus II, Duke of Bohemia|Boleslaus II]], on his deathbed, recalled when the Duchy of Bohemia extended to the ''Tritri montes''. Another mention is in the 1086 document from [[Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor|Henry IV]], wherein he referred to the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Prague|Diocese of Prague]] with ''Tritri'' mountains. Still another is in 1125, where the Kosmas chronicles (''[[Chronica Boëmorum|Chronica Boemorum]])'' mention the name ''Tatri''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |title=Tatry |last1=František |first1=Kele |last2=Lučanský |first2=Milan |publisher=Knižní klub |year=2001 |location=Praha |language=cs }}</ref>

Machek in 1931 favored the theory of the Polish linguist Rozwadowski with a syllabic ''r'' like in the words ''[[wiktionary:Chrt|chrt]]'' (Czech hound), ''[[wiktionary:Smrt|smrt]]'' (Czech death)''.'' In [[Czech language|Czech]] this syllabic is sometimes with vowels ''i'', ''e'' or ''u'' for example ''črný'' – ''[[wiktionary:Černý|černý]]'', so the Czech reconstruction from Tritri/Tritry would be ''Trtry.'' In [[Polish language|Polish]], the term ''Tatry'' is firstly mentioned in 1255. [[Syllabic r|Syllabic ''r'']] often has [[vowel]]s on both sides in Polish, so in case of ''Tarty'' we can reconstruct the name to ''Tartry'', where the vowel ''a'' originated before the syllabic ''r'' which [[Dissimilation|dissimilated]]. This theory is supported by [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]] forms ''Turtur'', ''Turtul'' and ''Tortol'' from 12th to 14th centuries. It is unclear what form the [[Slovak language|Slovak]] term took before the 17th century when the first references to ''Tatry'' appear, probably as a loan word from Polish that later found its way into Czech and Hungarian. The term ''Tatra'' also appears as a general term in Slovak for barren or stony land and also in [[Ukraine]] for small stones in a river. Machek stresses that the name has no [[Slavic languages|Slavic]] origin and mentions Rozwadowski's theory of an [[Illyrian languages|Illyrian]] origin because of a connection with a [[Herzegovina|Herzegovian]] highland called ''Tatra'', thus taken from local inhabitants.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Machek |first=Václav |year=1931 |title=Tatry |url=http://nase-rec.ujc.cas.cz/archiv.php?art=2334 |journal=Naše řeč |issue=15 |pages=119–120 |archive-date=26 September 2017 |access-date=25 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926042412/http://nase-rec.ujc.cas.cz/archiv.php?art=2334 |url-status=live }}</ref> The name is also close to the [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]] word for gravel, ''toltry''.<ref name=":0" />