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Me-weehl 'O Le-gehl

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Me-weehl 'O Le-gehlpn • Cann's Prairie (on the ridge of the Bald Hills above the mouth of Redwood Creek)

Lexicon record # 1760 | Source reference(s): YN157
Semantic domain: place names
Derivation: literally, "where elk dance" (me-weehl "elk", he-lo-mey-yek' "I dance")