#2120~I feel so special. :bfly:

#2121

Connecticut comes from a Mohican word for 'at the long tidal river'.

#2122

Delaware was named after the English governor Lord de la Warr

Yeah but do you feel sleepy? :P

#2123

#2124

Florida comes from a Spanish term for "land of flowers"

#2125

Georgia was named after King George II

#2126

Hawaii is a Hawaiian term for "homeland"

These days I'm also seeing it spelled Hawai'i

Actually, I'm a transplanted Kentucky girl, so we'll wait to see what that one says. :)

As an aside, there are many, many Indian names here in Iowa. The city I live in is the Indian word for "Land of Rippling Waters."

#2127

#2128

Idaho is Shoshone for "light on the mountain"

#2129

Illinois comes from Algonquian (via French) for "warriors"

#2130

Indiana comes from English "land of the Indians"

#2131 (Iowa would be next, alphabetically, see above)

Kansas follows Iowa, see Arkansas.

#2132 Kentucky

It comes from an Iroquois word for 'meadow land'

#2133

Louisiana was named for King Louis XIV of France.

#2134

Maine is named after a French Province

#2135

Maryland is named after Henrietta Maria, queen to Charles I

#2136

Massachusetts comes from an Algonquian word for 'place of the big hill'

#2137

Michigan comes from a Chippewa word for 'big water'.

#2138

Minnesota comes from a Dakota Sioux term for 'sky-colored water'.

#2139

(damn telephone)

Mississippi (as an aside, studying the novel Sansibar, oder der letzte Grund in Germany and all the allusions to Huck Finn drove the Germans crazy, with all the Native American terms/spellings that I was quite used to. Oh well)

this one comes from the Chippewa for 'big river'

#2140

Missouri (that's miz-oo-ree if you live north of the mason-dixon line, and miz-oo-ruh if you're south of it ;) ).

comes from an Algonquian word via French for 'muddy waters'

#2141

Montana

comes from the Spanish for 'mountains'

#2142

Nebraska comes from an Omaha term for 'river in the flatness'

Nevada comes from the Spanish for snowy.

#2143

(numbers got off again, darn it)

#2144

New Hampshire is named after an English county.

#2145

New Jersey is named after Jersey, in the Channel islands.

#2146

New Mexico is named after Mexico, which itself comes from the name of the Aztec war god, Mextli

#2147

New York was named after the Duke of York (after the colony was taken from the Dutch).

#2148

North and South Carolina are named after King Charles II

#2149

North and South Dakota are named after a Sioux word for 'friend' (and the Dakota tribe).

#2150

Ohio comes from an Iriquois word for 'beautiful water'

#2151

Ooooooooooooooooooklahoma (sorry had a song come on there)....

Oklahoma (my native state) comes from a Choctaw word for 'red people'

#2152

Oregon means you're out of Ore. Ore-gone.

No just kidding.

It comes from an Algonquian word for 'beautiful water' or 'beaver place' (researchers aren't sure which).

#2153

Pennsylvania was named after William Penn and the Latin word for 'woodland'.

#2154

Rhode Island comes from the Dutch for 'red clay'

#2155

South Carolina and South Dakota would come next, in that order. See above.

#2156

Tennessee comes from a Cherokee settlement name, origin unknown.

(as an aside, was it Tennessee or Kentucky that people wanted to name after Benjamin Franklin?)

#2157

Texas (which as a republic had its own individual states once upon a time) comes from the Spanish for 'allies'

#2158

Utah (which the Mormons wanted to name something else originally, but I forget what it was at the moment) comes from the Navaho for 'upper land' or 'land of the Ute'

#2159

Vermont comes from the French for 'green mountain'