English
Mississippi
Mississippi comes from Ojibwe misi-ziibi.
- Ojibwemodernmisi-ziibi
- Englishearliest quotation 1970Mississippi
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Ojibwemodernmisi-ziibi
- Englishearliest quotation 1970Mississippi
Earliest quotation: 1970, Black Blood & The Chocolate Pickles, Mississippi Mud: “Mississippi mud is soaked in black blood / How…”
Every English word from Ojibwe misi-ziibi
Today it means
name A state of the United States.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ojibwe misi-ziibi / Mississippi