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Largest lake in #Mongolia named Uvs Nuur. Gotta have a cool etymology right?

AND IT DOES!! FREAKIN FERMENTED MILK ORT?!

Now, I've never tasted the bitter #dregs left behind from fermented milk but naming your biggest lake after it?

Bold.

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Uvs Lake is a highly saline lake, contained within the endorheic basin named after it-Uvs Nuur Basin. It is primarily located in Mongolia, with a smaller part in Russia. It is the largest lake in Mongolia by surface area, covering 3,350 km2 at 759 m above sea level. The northeastern tip of the lake is situated in the Tuva Republic of the Russian Federation. The largest settlement near the lake is Ulaangom. This shallow and very saline body of water is a remainder of a huge saline sea which covered a much larger area several thousand years ago. (Closest article: Uvs Lake, ~4.66 miles; found via undefined-mile search)

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Name

The name Uvs Nuur (sometimes spelled Ubsa Nor or Ubsunur) derives from subsen, a Turkic/Mongolian word referring to the bitter dregs left behind in the making of airag (Mongolian fermented mare milk drink), and nuur, the Mongolian word for lake. The name is a reference to the lake's salty, undrinkable water. In one Mongolian folk tale a character named Sartaktai, known for digging wondrous canals and setting courses for rivers, tries to connect Uvs Lake to another nearby lake by digging a canal between them. But when the water of Uvs Lake refuses to flow, Sartaktai angrily declares "Be thy name Subsennor!" A name that is defined as "bad wine, dregs of the spirit that comes from the still.

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