Saint Mary Lake

English

Alternative forms

  • Saint Mary lake (dated, alternative capitalization)
  • St. Mary Lake (abbreviation)

Etymology

By surface analysis, Saint Mary (unincorporated community in Montana) +‎ lake. Compare St. Mary Lake and Saint Mary's Lake.

Proper noun

Saint Mary Lake

  1. A lake in Glacier National Park, Glacier County, Montana, United States.[1][2]
    • 1902, Bailey Willis, “Stratigraphy and Structure, Lewis and Livingston Ranges, Montana”, in Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, volume 13, pages 326, 327:
      Such outcrops were noted, however, in traversing the plains from Cutbank river to Saint Mary lake, and others were found about the mountain slopes west of Saint Mary lakes, up Swift Current Valley, on Kennedy creek, about Chief mountain, and on Belly river. [...]
      Just northeast of the northern end of Saint Mary lake Weller collected from a gray sandstone and according to Stanton's determination obtained Inoceramus sp., possibly young of I. labiatus, Mactra emmonsi Meek? Tellina modesta Meek, Donax cuneata Stanton, Corbula sp., Turritella sp., and Lunatia sp.

Descendants

  • → Arabic: بُحَيْرَة سَاِنْت مَارِي (buḥayra(t) saint mārī) (partial calque)
  • → Japanese: セントメリー湖 (Sento Merī Mizuumi) (partial calque)
  • → Korean: 세인트 메리 호수 (seinteu meri hosu) (partial calque)
  • → Vietnamese: Hồ Saint Mary (partial calque)

See also


References

  1. ^ Frank Alonzo Wilder (1905), The Lignite of North Dakota and Its Relation to Irrigation, Washington: Government Printing Office, page 195
  2. ^ Bureau of Fisheries, United States Department of Commerce and Labor (1911), Report of Commissioner of Fisheries for the Fiscal Year 1910 and Special Papers‎[1], Washington: Government Printing Office, page 45
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