Monongahela

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Proper noun

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Monongahela

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

English

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Etymology

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

Noun

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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

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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[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

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