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kitchawan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
kitchawan
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Former name of Croton (river in New York).

name

The group which lived along this river, a subdivision of the Mohican tribe.

noun

A member of this group.

Etymology

Perhaps from Munsee kíhtsiipoong (kíhtsi·po·ng), from kíhtsiipuw (kíhtsi·pəw, “big river”) + -ung (-əng, locative suffix), from kíhch- (“big, very”), from Proto-Algonquian *keʔči-, + síipuw (sí·pəw, “river”), from Proto-Algonquian *si·pi·wi. The river was later renamed after the group's chief, Croton.

Word Breakdown

  • Root: kíhtsiipoong, *keʔči-, *si·pi·wi
  • Suffix: kíhtsiipuw

Inflected Forms

Kitchawonk (alternative) Kitchewan (alternative) Kitchewank (alternative) Kitchawong (alternative) Kightawanck (alternative)

Questions

What does kitchawan mean?
Former name of Croton (river in New York).
Where does kitchawan come from?
Perhaps from Munsee kíhtsiipoong (kíhtsi·po·ng), from kíhtsiipuw (kíhtsi·pəw, “big river”) + -ung (-əng, locative suffix), from kíhch- (“big, very”), from Proto-Algonquian *keʔči-, + síipuw (sí·pəw, “river”), from Proto-Algonquian *si·pi·wi. The river was later renamed after the group's chief, Croton.

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