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Thanks for the information! I don’t know how much of it will apply to Equestria, but my status as the subject matter expert on place names is what pays my bills.
yeah, the only human word I know that translates to “I don’t understand you” is kangaroo.
in the 1609 logbook of robert juet he reported that they called the island manna-hata, which meant the place where we get bows from in the language of the lenape tribe. a munsee oral tradition reported that when the island was discovered, it had a grove of hickory trees which were ideal for fashioning bows out of.
so yes. manhattan is a pun. it’s a pun on the word “bows” which in the language of the lenape tribe sounds like “aht” (manna-aht-aan). effectively they named the island “getbowsland,” and manhattan continues to have that name to this day.