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'O Tegah

Dictionary entry

'O Tegahpn • cliff near Squashan Creek

Lexicon record # 5827 | Source reference(s): JPH:181 YG:H7
Semantic domain: place names
Derivation: literally, "where someone starved" (tegah "starve")

JPH181: "A place where the ocean was particularly dangerous such that people would travel around Squash Ann Creek to avoid it."