from
two Choctaw Indian words meaning “red people.”
Pensacola
(Florida)
Choctaw
for "hair" and "people."
Roanoke
(Virginia)
Algonquian
for "shell money" (Indian tribes often used shells that were made
into beads called wampum, as money).
Saratoga
(New York)
believed
to be Mohawk for "springs (of water) from the hillside."
Sunapee
(lake in New Hampshire)
Pennacook
for "rocky pond."
Tahoe
(the lake in California/Nevada)
is
Washo for "big water."
Tennessee
of
Cherokee origin; the exact meaning is unknown.
Texas
from
an Indian word meaning “friends.”
Utah
is
from the Ute tribe, meaning “people of the mountains.”
Wisconsin
French
corruption of an Indian word whose meaning is disputed.
Wyoming
from
the Delaware Indian word, meaning “mountains and valleys alternating”; the
same as the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania.
American
Indian Loan Words
From their earliest contact with traders and
explorers, American Indians borrowed foreign words, often to describe things
not previously encountered. The language exchange went both ways. Today, thousands of place names across North America have Indian origins - as do
hundreds of everyday English words.
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