Ūta (Kaniavos)
Ūta is a village in Kaniavos eldership, Varėna district municipality, Alytus County, southeastern Lithuania. According to the 2001 census, the village had a population of 25 people. At the 2011 census, the population was 11.
Etymology
The name Ūta comes from the word Lithuanian: ūta (a borrowing from Polish: huta or Belarusian: гута) and means 'a smelting place, a pitch making place'.
References
- ^ "Population by locality" (XLS). Statistics Lithuania. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
- ^ Alytaus apskrities kaimo gyvenamosios vietovės ir jų gyventojai (PDF) (in Lithuanian). Vilnius: Department of Statistics to the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. 2002. p. 54. ISBN 9986-589-83-5.
- ^ Šimkus, Šarūnas (2023). Varėnos krašto vietovardžių etimologinis žodynas (in Lithuanian). Vilnius: Liutauras Leščinskas. p. 60. ISBN 978-609-447-388-3.
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