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The name may have come from French-Canadian traders and hunters who traveled along the river, or early explorers may have thought that the river flowed into Canada. Chattahoochee : from Creek cato hocce ( IPA: [tʃató hóːtʃːi] ) "marked rock".
List of country-name etymologies. British — UK counties — German — India — Irish — Romanian counties — Bulgarian provinces — Brazilian states — U.S. states — Filipino provinces; List of etymologies of administrative divisions; List of national capital city name etymologies; List of river name etymologies
List of drainage basins by area (including rivers, lakes, and endorheic basins) List of largest unfragmented rivers; List of longest undammed rivers; List of river name etymologies; List of rivers by age; List of rivers by discharge; List of rivers by length; List of rivers of Central America and the Caribbean; List of rivers of the Americas
Map showing the source languages/language families of state names. The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian.
A hydronym (from Greek: ὕδρω, hydrō, "water" and ὄνομα, onoma, "name") is a type of toponym that designates a proper name of a body of water.Hydronyms include the proper names of rivers and streams, lakes and ponds, swamps and marshes, seas and oceans.
See List of country name etymologies#Netherlands for the etymology of "Holland". Overijssel: Dutch for "[Lands] across the IJssel river" (also Latin: "Transiselania") South Holland (Dutch: Zuid-Holland): Southern part of the region of Holland. See List of country name etymologies#Netherlands for the etymology of "Holland".
The river itself derived its name from Kongo, a Bantu kingdom which occupied its mouth around the time of its discovery by the Portuguese in 1483 [165] or 1484 [166] and whose name derived from its people, the Bakongo, an endonym said to mean "hunters" (Kongo: mukongo, nkongo).
Pages in category "Lists of rivers" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. ... List of river name etymologies; A. List of rivers of the ...