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Ashley Pond in Los Alamos, NM is a pond named after a man named Ashley Pond. It might be more correctly called Ashley Pond pond?

• dredmorbius 6y ago
  There is a long list of tautological place names, most often where multiple languates are ised in the name. "Rio Grande River" means "Big River River" (rio being river and grande big). "Kill" is Dutch for creek (e.g., Fishkill). "Avon" is Celtic (Gaelic, Irish, Welch) for river (River Avon). "Hatchie" is Choctaw for river (Loosahatchie River) "Mississippi" is Anishinaabe for "big river". Similarly Mekong, Cuyahoga, Wadi (or the Hispanified "guada"), Molopo, Ouse, Reka, Upė, Walla, "ci-" perfix (Java), Owen, and otheers in different refions. Bothmia, Chad, Laguna, Lagunita, "-kal", Loch, bach, Michigan are all other terms for bodies of water (lakes, bays, etc.). Gibralteer, knock (cnoc), Montana, Morro, Killimanjaro (killi), pen or pendell, pic ("peak), mesa. Etc., etc., etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tautological_place_names https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tautological_place_nam...
  • thelibrarian 6y ago
    The best example of this is Torpenhow Hill in Cumbria, England. Torr, penn, and howe all mean “hill” in different languages.
    • dredmorbius 6y ago
      There are several such triples: - Eas Fors Waterfall - Deschutes Falls, Tumwater, Washington - Lochmere Lake, Cary, North Carolina - Bredon Hill, Pendle Hill, (hill hill hill) - Nesoddtangen (cape cape cape) - Wookey Hole Caves (cave cave cave) Lake Semerwater is a near-quad: lake lake lake water. Then there are double doubles: The La Brea Tar Pits (the the tar tar pits).
      • wolf550e 6y ago
        in fiction, Castle DunBroch from Disney's Brave.
      • madcaptenor 6y ago
        And the baseball team, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (the the angels angels of Ana's home)