Monongahela

Translingual

Proper noun

Monongahela

  1. A taxonomic genus within the class Sarcopterygii – certain extinct prehistoric sarcopterygians.

English

Etymology

From Unami mënaonkihëla (where the banks cave in).[1]

Noun

Monongahela pl (plural only)

  1. (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

Monongahela

  1. A river on the Allegheny Plateau in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, United States, a tributary of the Ohio River.
  2. 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:
      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.

References

  1. Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005) “Mënaonkihëla”, in Leneaux, Grant, Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project
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