Where does “Mississippian” come from?
Mississippian derives from English Mississippi, Italian -ana, Spanish -ana, Latin -anus, and Proto-Italic -os, a suffix originally denoting possession or relation.
Mississippian (English): Of a geologic epoch within the Carboniferous...
Definitions
- Of a geologic epoch within the Carboniferous...
Ancestry of “Mississippian”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Mississippi | Used in a common chronometric counting scheme, in... |
| 2 | Ojibwe | misi-ziibi | great river |