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allegheny

/ˌæl.ɪˈɡeɪ.ni/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.09 in modern English

Syllables
al-le-ghe-ny
IPA
/ˌæl.ɪˈɡeɪ.ni/
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The Allegheny River in Pennsylvania.

name

Allegheny Mountain (Pennsylvania), a major mountain ridge in the northern part of the Allegheny Mountains.

name

Allegheny Mountain (West Virginia – Virginia), a major mountain ridge in the southern part of the Allegheny Mountains.

name

The Allegheny Mountains.

Dated

name

Appalachia.

Dated

name

Any of several towns or counties in Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina and Kentucky.

Etymology

Borrowed from Unami Alikehane, from alike (“to step; he steps”) and -hane (“river”). (Heckewelder alleged that the name was connected to a mythical Allegewi tribe, but this is probably spurious.) The name of the Ohio river, which the Lenape and Iroquois considered to be part of the same single river as the Allegheny, means the same thing in Seneca.

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

Alleghenies (plural) Alleghany (alternative) Allegany (alternative)

Derived Forms

Algic Alleghenian Alleghanian

Phrases

Allegheny alligator Allegheny City Allegheny County Allegheny mound ant Allegheny plum

Rhymes With

rainy cheney delaney chaney grainy rainey janie bahraini zany khomeini brainy laney

Questions

How do you pronounce allegheny?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˌæl.ɪˈɡeɪ.ni/.
What does allegheny mean?
The Allegheny River in Pennsylvania.
Where does allegheny come from?
Borrowed from Unami Alikehane, from alike (“to step; he steps”) and -hane (“river”). (Heckewelder alleged that the name was connected to a mythical Allegewi tribe, but this is probably spurious.) The name of the Ohio river, which the Lenape and Iroquois considered to be part of the same single river as the Allegheny, means the same thing in Seneca.

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