What is the origin of the name of your Province or State?
I live in Ontario which name was acquired from the Iroquois word kanadario which means Sparkling Water
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caPnAhab · 26-30, M
Nevada
Is a Spanish word that refers to the snow on the mountains. Of all the land features to note, I wouldn't think that's the most obvious
Is a Spanish word that refers to the snow on the mountains. Of all the land features to note, I wouldn't think that's the most obvious
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@caPnAhab You illustrate a point that I think many people miss, that many if not most geographical names might look exotic but when translated into your own language, are really quite mundane descriptions of the features! They were often named locally when most people did not travel far from their own villages; but European settlers tended to impose their own names on things.
A shingle beach in my part of the world is called "Chesil Beach". Translated from Old English, it means just "Shingle Beach".
There is a short river on a fell in the Pennine Hills of Northern England, called "Fell Beck". It means only "Hill Steam": the region's dialect is heavily Scandinavian and in modern Norwegian that stream is "Fjell Bekk". ("Fell" / "Fjell" means rather loosely, hill or upland moor.)
I don't know the etymology of "Pennine", but Norway itself is full of Kvitfjells, Blåfjells, Snåfjells.... respectively White, Blue and Snow[-covered] Hills, again from when few people travelled far. (I think I've spelled them correctly.)
My nickname here concatenates "Arish Mell", a small bay on the English South coast, but I do not know its etymology. Arish might have been the family name of some land-owner many centuries ago, perhaps.
A shingle beach in my part of the world is called "Chesil Beach". Translated from Old English, it means just "Shingle Beach".
There is a short river on a fell in the Pennine Hills of Northern England, called "Fell Beck". It means only "Hill Steam": the region's dialect is heavily Scandinavian and in modern Norwegian that stream is "Fjell Bekk". ("Fell" / "Fjell" means rather loosely, hill or upland moor.)
I don't know the etymology of "Pennine", but Norway itself is full of Kvitfjells, Blåfjells, Snåfjells.... respectively White, Blue and Snow[-covered] Hills, again from when few people travelled far. (I think I've spelled them correctly.)
My nickname here concatenates "Arish Mell", a small bay on the English South coast, but I do not know its etymology. Arish might have been the family name of some land-owner many centuries ago, perhaps.