[1] It rises in the White Carpathians near the village of Nová Lhota in Moravia, but crosses the Czech-Slovak border shortly afterwards and flows in a southern direction until the town of Myjava, where it enters the Myjava Hills and turns west.

The stem myj- comes from Proto-Slavic *myjǫ (Slovak: mytie, podmývanie), meaning "to wash", "to undermine river banks".

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