Mendota

See also: mendota

English

Etymology

From Dakota mdóte (“mouth or junction of one river with another”).[1]

Proper noun

Mendota

  1. A number of places in the United States:
    1. A city in Fresno County, California.
    2. A city in LaSalle County, Illinois.
    3. A township in LaSalle County, Illinois.
    4. A minor city in Dakota County, Minnesota.
    5. An unincorporated community in Washington County, Virginia.
    6. An extinct town in Lewis County, Washington.

References
  1. Riggs, Stephen Return (1852) Grammar and dictionary of the Dakota language‎, Smithsonian Institution, page 139
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