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Toronto

Iroquoian (likely Mohawk)
“where there are trees standing in the water”
Where it comes from
tkaronto, roughly 'where there are trees standing in the water'
Fun Fact
The name is thought to have originally referred to a narrows further north where Indigenous peoples drove stakes into the water to catch fish, long before it was applied to the modern city's location.
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