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Niagara
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2016. 2. 8. 21:43
★ Niagara = Nia-gara
★ gara = 강(江)
★ nia = ?둘
★ Niagara = ?두 개의 강이 마주치는 곳
★ waterfall from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, from a town name, perhaps from an Iroquoian language and meaning "a neck" (between two bodies of water); general sense of "a cataract, torrent" is attested from 1841; meaning " 'shower' of ringlets (true or false) in women's hair" is from 1864, also known as cataract curls.
cf. Online etymology Dictionary
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