Monongahela
Translingual edit
Proper noun edit
†Monongahela
- A taxonomic genus within the class Sarcopterygii – certain extinct prehistoric sarcopterygians.
English edit
Etymology edit
From Unami mënaonkihëla (“where the banks cave in”).[1]
Noun edit
Monongahela pl (plural only)
- (historical) An Iroquoian Native American culture from AD 1050 to 1635 in present-day western Pennsylvania, western Maryland, eastern Ohio, and West Virginia, whose sites have been mostly found in the Monongahela River valley.
Proper noun edit
Monongahela
- A river on the Allegheny Plateau in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, United States, a tributary of the Ohio River.
- A city in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States.
- Synonym: (informal) Mon City
- 2022 October 17, Robert Draper, “The Problem of Marjorie Taylor Greene”, in The New York Times Magazine[1]:
- Just a couple of weeks later, on Sept. 23, Greene sat directly behind McCarthy in a manufacturing facility in Monongahela, Pa., as he publicly previewed what a House Republican majority’s legislative agenda would look like.
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References edit
- ^ Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005) “Mënaonkihëla”, in Leneaux, Grant, Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project