English
Ohio
Ohio comes from Seneca Ohi꞉yoʼ.
- SenecamodernOhi꞉yoʼ
- Englishearliest quotation 2005Ohio
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- SenecamodernOhi꞉yoʼ
- Englishearliest quotation 2005Ohio
Earliest quotation: 2005, Henry Alford, Not a Word: “Mountweazel, the encyclopedia indicates, was born in Bangs, Ohio,…”
The story
The name of the Allegheny river, which the Lenape and Iroquois considered to be part of the same single river as the Ohio, means the same thing in Unami.
Every English word from Seneca Ohi꞉yoʼ
Today it means
name A state of the United States. Capital and largest city: Columbus.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Seneca Ohi꞉yoʼ / Ohio