English
State of Mississippi
From state + Mississippi.
A compound of state + Mississippi
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- ‘to stand’
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Proto-Italic *status ‘setting up; position’
Latin status ‘state, condition, position’
Old French estat ‘state’
Middle English stat ‘condition’
English state
Ojibwe misi-ziibi
English Mississippi
Today it means
name Formal name of the U.S. state of Mississippi
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / State of Mississippi