This is how a lot of historic locations got their names, funny enough. If you’re a hunter-gatherer tribe and you only have one river or whatever in travel distance, you’re probably just going to call it “the river” because it’s going to be obvious which one you’re talking about.
Plenty of that across languages since people would go to an area and ask the locals “what do you call this lake/river/mountain range/desert/ocean?” And since that was the only lake/river/mountain range/desert/ocean the locals really knew about, it was just called that in their language.
So its name is Lake-Lake?
The indigenous people probably just called it Oniatarí-io. The settlers called it Lake lake of the shining waters.
silly crackers have done it again, like calling chai tea-tea
sahara means deserts (plural), so “the sahara desert” means the deserts desert
may I have it with some naan bread?
This is how a lot of historic locations got their names, funny enough. If you’re a hunter-gatherer tribe and you only have one river or whatever in travel distance, you’re probably just going to call it “the river” because it’s going to be obvious which one you’re talking about.
Perhaps the most famous examples being Torpenhow Hill, which can be translated as Hillhillhill Hill, or the River Avon which is the River River.
there’s a long list of river rivers
Plenty of that across languages since people would go to an area and ask the locals “what do you call this lake/river/mountain range/desert/ocean?” And since that was the only lake/river/mountain range/desert/ocean the locals really knew about, it was just called that in their language.
The US borders are the Lake Ontario (lake) at the north, the Rio Grande (river) river at the south…