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(#17) Kentucky
- 1792-06-01
The etymology on this is unclear, but it may be an English bastardization of a Native American word, perhaps the Seneca geda'geh, meaning "at the field." Early Native use of the term as a place name may also come from a village known to the Shawnee as Eskippakithiki. Another popular theory is that "Kentucky" comes from the Iroquois word "ken-tah-ten," meaning "land of tomorrow" or "dark and bloody ground."
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(#35) Ohio
- 1803-03-01
Named after the Ohio River, which was named after an Iroquoian word meaning "good" or "great" river.
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(#32) New York
- 1788-07-26
Named in honor of the Duke of York and Albany, later known as King James II.
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(#1) Alabama
- 1819-12-14
Pretty straightforwardly, Alabama was named for the Alabama Indian tribe that lived in the western part of the state and eastern Mississippi until the early 1800s. The meaning of the word "Alabama" is unclear, but it may come from a Choctaw word meaning "thicket-clearers" or "vegetation-gatherers."
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