Monday, September 24, 2012

Daily Trivia #586 'Name of the Game'

What common between these lakes ? (3/5)


16 comments:

  1. They have TAUTOLOGICAL NAMES- i.e., their names literally means "LAKE".
    DAL LAKE, LAKE TAHOE, LAKE NYASSA, LAKE CHAD, and one other lake, maybe the GAUBE LAKE..

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  2. Lake chad, Dal lake, dead sea, etc are all shrunken lakes.

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  3. all lakes have Tautological names- that is their names effectively mean "lake" and so their name turns out to be "lake lake".

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  4. Tautological names, all of them essentially mean 'Lake Lake'.

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  5. All of them essentially mean “lake” (or rather “lake lake”)-Tautological names.
    The lakes given are:-
    Dal Lake (Kashmir), Gaube Lake, Lake Chad (Chad), Lake Nyassa (Malawi), Lake Tahoe (California) and Lake Hayq (Ethiopia)

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  6. The names of all these lakes are tautological, i.e their name means lake itself in the native language of their region.

    For ex. Dal means lake in Balti language, Chad means lake in Bornu,
    Tahoe means lake in Washo etc.

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  7. All of these lakes have tautological names, 'Lake Lake'.

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  8. malawi tahoe nyassa dhal gaube lakes

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  9. 1.dal
    2.gaube
    3.chad
    4.nyassa
    5.tahoe
    All of the names mean lake.

    Ketan

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  10. ALL THE LAKES HAVE "TAUTOLOGICAL NAMES"
    1. DAL LAKE ( LAKE LAKE IN BALTI LANGUAGE)
    2. GAUBE LAKE ( LAKE LAKE IN FRENCH LANGUAGE)
    3. LAKE CHAD (LAKE LAKE IN BORNU LANGUAGE)
    4. LAKE NYASA ( NOW KNOWN AS LAKE MALAWI MEANING LAKE LAKE IN YAO LANGUAGE)
    5. LAKE TAHOE (LAKE THE LAKE IN WASHO NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBAL LANGUAGE)

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  11. all of them mean lake
    Dal Lake
    Gaube Lake
    Lake Chad
    Lake Nyassa
    Lake Tahoe

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  12. Answer : 'Lake' Lake :) (tautological names)

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