Etymology

Pontiac

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Ottawa Bwandiag
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The story

  1. Ottawa · borrowed fromBwandiag
  2. English todayPontiac

Most places are named after Pontiac, a war chief, whose name is a borrowing of Ottawa Bwandiag.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.