California Place Names of Indian Origin
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Tocaloma, in Marin County, is given by Bailey as meaning "the hooded hill" in Spanish. This is improbable. Toca means a "hood" or "toque, " but "hood-hill" would be Loma Toca rather than Toca- loma. The place is in Coast Miwok territory, and sounds like a Coast 33 Alexander Taylor, California Farmer, October 18, 1861 ; April 24. 1863. S* Godclard, present series, I, 12, 1903 : Djictanadin.
1916] Kroeber: California Place Names of Indian Origin 63 Miwok word. The ending suggests -yome, meaning '...'place" in this language ; especially as 1 and y interchange in some Miwok dialects. It may be added that in Central Sierra Miwok dialect tokoloma means ' ' land salamander. ' ' Tolay Creek, in Sonoma County, appears to have an unidentified Indian name. There was a Coast Miwok raneheria Tuli near Sonoma City. Barrett, Porno, 313.
Tolenas, or Tolenos, in Solano County, is apparently named from a South Wintun Indian village. Taylor, quoted in Bancroft, Native Races, I, 452. Sanchez, 268, 436, suggests a misspelling of Yolenos, perhaps Yolenos, as the Spaniards might have called the Yolo Indians.
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Tocaloma, in Marin County, is given by Bailey as meaning "the hooded hill" in Spanish. This is improbable. Toca means a "hood" or "toque, " but "hood-hill" would be Loma Toca rather than Toca- loma. The place is in Coast Miwok territory, and sounds like a Coast 33 Alexander Taylor, California Farmer, October 18, 1861 ; April 24. 1863. S* Godclard, present series, I, 12, 1903 : Djictanadin.
1916] Kroeber: California Place Names of Indian Origin 63 Miwok word. The ending suggests -yome, meaning '...'place" in this language ; especially as 1 and y interchange in some Miwok dialects. It may be added that in Central Sierra Miwok dialect tokoloma means ' ' land salamander. ' ' Tolay Creek, in Sonoma County, appears to have an unidentified Indian name. There was a Coast Miwok raneheria Tuli near Sonoma City. Barrett, Porno, 313.
Tolenas, or Tolenos, in Solano County, is apparently named from a South Wintun Indian village. Taylor, quoted in Bancroft, Native Races, I, 452. Sanchez, 268, 436, suggests a misspelling of Yolenos, perhaps Yolenos, as the Spaniards might have called the Yolo Indians.
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