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  • Ohio

    from an Iroquoian word meaning “great river.”

    Oklahoma

    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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