Fun fact: Lake Ontario isn't named after the province Ontario, the province was named after the lake. "Oniatarí-io" translates to "lake of shining waters" in indigenous Haudenosaunee

mar_k [he/him]@hexbear.net · 5 days ago

Fun fact: Lake Ontario isn't named after the province Ontario, the province was named after the lake. "Oniatarí-io" translates to "lake of shining waters" in indigenous Haudenosaunee

TommyCatkins [none/use any]@hexbear.net · 4 days ago

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.