Where does “ミシシッピ” come from?
ミシシッピ (Japanese) comes from English Mississippi, from Ojibwe misi-ziibi — great river.
ミシシッピ (Japanese): Mississippi
Ancestry of “ミシシッピ”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | Mississippi | Used in a common chronometric counting scheme, in... |
| 2 | Ojibwe | misi-ziibi | great river |