Mono

Meanings

Noun

• An American Indian people of the central Sierra Nevada and neighboring Great Basin lands to the east in California.
• An ethnic group from the Congo.

Proper Noun

• The Numic language of the Mono people of California.
• The language of the Mono people of the Congo.
• county California (state) USA (country), see Mono County.
• An alkaline desert lake, Mono Lake, in this county that has a unique ecosystem.
• town Ontario (province).
• island Solomon Islands (country).
• river Togo (country).

Origin

• Uncertain. The Monache, a related ethnic group, seems to derive their name from a common source as the Mono, as -chi occurs otherwise in the Yokutsan and Miwok languages as a relatively common suffix on tribal names.