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Most words of Native American/First Nations language origin are the common names for indigenous flora and fauna, or describe items of Native American or First Nations life and culture. Some few are names applied in honor of Native Americans or First Nations peoples or due to a vague similarity to the original object of the word.
Unidilla - An Iroquois word meaning "place of meeting." Named after Unadilla, New York. Venango - An eastern Native American name in reference to a figure found on a tree, carved by the Erie. Waco - Named after Waco, Texas, which is the name of one of the divisions of the Tawokoni whose village stood on the site of Waco, Texas. Wahoo; Winnebago
When the common name of the organism in English derives from an indigenous language of the Americas, it is given first. In biological nomenclature , organisms receive scientific names , which are formally in Latin , but may be drawn from any language and many have incorporated words from indigenous language of the Americas.
This is a list of common nouns, used in the English language, whose etymology goes back to the name of some, often historical or archaic, ethnic or religious group, but whose current meaning has lost that connotation and does not imply any actual ethnicity or religion. Several of these terms are derogatory or insulting.
The primary Native American languages in Michigan are Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi, all of which are dialects of Algonquin. Some other places names in Michigan are found to be derived from Sauk , Oneida , Wyandot , Abenaki , Shawnee , Mohawk , Seneca , Seminole , Iroquois , and Delaware , although many of these tribes are not found in Michigan.
Hasbidito Creek – from a Navajo phrase meaning "dove spring". [9] Kinnikinick Lake; Lake Bekihatso – from the Navajo phrase be'e k'id hatsoh, meaning "big pond". [10] Segetoa Spring – from the Navajo phrase tsiyi't ohi, meaning "spring in the forest". [11] Setsiltso Spring – from the Navajo phrase chech'il tsoh, meaning "big oak". [11]
Many places throughout Alabama take their names from the languages of the indigenous Native American/American Indian tribes. The following list includes settlements, geographic features, and political subdivisions whose names are derived from these indigenous languages. The primary Native American peoples present in Alabama during historical ...
The meanings of the latter category are traditional only, but the tradition may not necessarily descend from a native speaker. It may have been a settler's conjecture, passed on through the social mechanism of the sacred words of the forefathers or simply because no other interpretation was available.