Where does “Mississippi” come from?

Mississippi (Italian) comes from English Mississippi, from Ojibwe misi-ziibi — great river.

Ancestry of “Mississippi”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishMississippiUsed in a common chronometric counting scheme, in...
2Ojibwemisi-ziibigreat river
Every word from Ojibwe misi-ziibi →Every word from English Mississippi →
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