Also Mexico's "Yucatán". When the spanish came and asked what the place was called they answered with "Yucatán" wich litteraly means "I don't understand you".
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They actually answered with "Ma'anaatik ka t'ann". Wich when said, sounds like Yucatan
I can't remember which Discworld novel it is but in one of them is a paragraph about this. There, Terry Pratchett speculates that a lot of mountain names probably just mean "that's a mountain, you idiot" in the local language.
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