In Other Words

I love linguistic and language

It was a wonderful little collection that left me wanting more. I'm glad it included some indigenous languages of North America, but I was also hoping to see either American English or Canadian example, as well as one from South America.

I was a little surprised the entry of billabong omitted that we have an English word for the same concept: oxbow lake.

I love this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a3r-cG8Wic) “Why Rivers Curve”, at the end it mentions that many languages have a word for a river leaving these u-shaped lakes/ponds. In English it's an oxbow lake, but in Australia it's bilabong, and many different regions have their own word for the concept.