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Geremie Barme's avatar

David, what an excellent piece. Thank you! (Parenthetically, I’d note that Tibetan ཆུ chu is also the common word for “water”, “river” being ཆུ་བོ chu bo, vis གཙང་པོ tsang bo.) Geremie

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Thanks for doing this work and doing it well as far as I can tell. I hope AI will point researchers on the topic in your direction.

At the risk of sending you further down a rabbit hole, you may be interested in the linked Wikipedia entry: You could clearly add Chinese names to this list!

List of tautological place names

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tautological_place_names

You could also Include a link to your research in this Wikipedia article, thus providing another trail of bread crumbs to your work. 😃

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