Eine etymologische Karte von Nordamerika, die die sprachlichen Ursprünge der Namen von US-Bundesstaaten und kanadischen Provinzen/Territorien zeigt.
Von Ornery-Chocolate2987
Eine etymologische Karte von Nordamerika, die die sprachlichen Ursprünge der Namen von US-Bundesstaaten und kanadischen Provinzen/Territorien zeigt.
Von Ornery-Chocolate2987
33 Kommentare
Wouldn’t Nova Scotia be Latin?
Labrador is Portuguese
The map is incorrect as there are no Canadian states with names derived from Native, English, French, Spanish, or Dutch languages.
So I really am daho after all
Idaho is completely invented name. Canada has no states.
I thought Idaho was made up gibberish?
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In the early 1860s, when the
U.S. Congress
was considering organizing a new territory around
Pikes Peak
in the
Rocky Mountains
, the name „Idaho“ was popular among the Congressional committee, as they believed it to be derived from a
Shoshone
[
citation needed
]
term meaning „gem of the mountains.“
[9
]
Realizing in January 1861 the name was quite possibly a fabrication and not Native American at all,
[10
]
the U.S. Congress ultimately decided to name the area
Colorado Territory
when it was created.
How is „Arizona“ not Spanish?
looking for the Dutch one… Rhode Island?
The origin of “Oregon” is unknown. There’s a whole Wikipedia page about it. It could be French, Spanish, Portuguese, or Native, and if it is Native there is dispute about which language group it could have come from (Algonquian, Chinook, Shoshone, or Sioux).
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_Oregon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_Oregon)
Now do the Great Lakes
Nova Scotia is Latin, not some new school English tripe!
Texas is Spanish. Spanish is not a native language to the Americas. Also New Mexico? This map is trash…
„Idaho“ is not English.
Isn’t Quebéc a french name too?
Idaho?
Canada doesn’t have States, it has Provences and Territories.
This post has to be engagement bait
right. Whomever made this needs to be put in a closed room with an angry goose for calling our provinces ‚States‘ and also needs to add Latin, but otherwise, a good reminder that the history of North America is not all white guys
Indiana is surprising
Illinois is a native word with a twist of French.
I believe Illinois would be French because it’s what the French settlers called the iroquois i believe
I mean, California is… kind of Spanish. In the same way that if we named a place „Suto’vo’qor“ it would be English.
Quebec is Native?
Texas is a native name?
New Brunswick is of German origin.
Indiana’s name origin is not English, Indiana derives from the word India, Indus, which is the latin version named after the Indus River in India, which comes from the original **Sanskrit** word Sindhu. Which just means river or ocean.
New Mexico is Native? That’s either Spanish or English.
Idaho is English? Doesn’t sound it.
Maine literally means “mainland” because a larger population was on the southern islands of Maine at the time. They called it the “Maine” for short. And that was in English
Nova Scotia is Latin for new Scotland.
Arizona could be interpreted as Spanish origin too imo
Supposedly, „Spanish colonists heard the native O’odham phrase *alĭ ṣonak* and pronounced it as *Arizonac* or *Arissona*“
* multiple origin errors
* provinces and territories called states
Just need one more category of major errors to make it a truly the epitome of MapPorn posts.
AI slop