Date:
18.03.2024 17:17
A contribution by
laughingsquid.com
Linguist Rob Watts of RobWords looks at the etymological origins behind the names of every state within the United States.
Enjoy this etymological tour of the United States.
The sources include English locations (New York, New Hampshire, New Jersey), British monarchs (Georgia, The Carolinas, Maryland), colonists (Pennsylvania, Delaware), Native American tribes (Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Massachusetts, The Dakotas, Texas, Idaho, Utah), Native American landscape descriptions (Arizona, Wyoming, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio, Kentucky, Mississippi, Kentucky, Michigan, Tennessee, Connecticut), Russian (Alaska) and local (Hawai’i), European language origins (Colorado, Montana, Nevada, California, Florida, Vermont), colloquial use (Maine, Oregon, and Rhode Island).
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