Rio Dell

English

Etymology

Coined in 1870 by Lorenzo Painter, owner of the eponymous Rio Dell Hotel, as a combination of Spanish río (“river”) and English dell (“a small wooded valley”).[1]

Proper noun

Rio Dell

  1. A city in Humboldt County, California, United States.

References
  1. Garrison, James R. (2015) Scotia and Rio Dell, Arcadia Publishing Inc, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 8

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