The story
- Spanish · borrowed fromrío“river”
- English todayRio Dell
Coined in 1870 by Lorenzo Painter, owner of the eponymous Rio Dell Hotel, as a combination of Spanish río (“river”) and English dell (“a small wooded valley”).
Words from the same roots
Spanishrío all →
KingsburgritoRio Arriba County
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.