Things
Taino barbacoa, a raised wooden frame used for grilling meat or fish.
What is barbecue?
Quinnitukqut, "long river," which is what the Mohegan tribe called the longest river in New England.
What is Connecticut?
Nahuatl tomatl
What is tomato?
This city, in McLennan County, is named for a Wichita group that entered Texas in the early-18th century and occupied this region in the 19th century.
What is Waco?
Maya sik’ar, "smoke"
What is cigar?
Alaxsxix, which is a name from language of the Unangan people whom the Russians called Aleuts. It means "place the sea crashes against."
What is Alaska?
Taino batata
What is potato?
From the Nacogdoche Indians, a Caddoan group. The main town in the county also is named after the tribe.
What is Nacogdoches?
Algonquian caucauasu ‘counselor’
What is caucus?
May be derived from Illiniwek, which is what the Illini tribe called themselves. It means roughly "superior people."
What is Illinois?
Massachuset asktasquash
What is squash?
This stream, in Duval and Jim Wells counties, derives its name from the Anaqua Indians, a group first described by Cabeza de Vaca.
What is Anaquitas Creek?
Arawak iwana
What is iguana?
The name of the Albaamaha, a tribe native to the state. It could be derived from the word albina, which means "campsite" in their own language, or from the Choctaw alba amo, which mean "clearing brush."
What is Alabama?
Nahuatl chocolatl, an edible substance made from the seeds of the cacao tree.
What is chocolate?
Either from an Indian word meaning "high plain water," or from an Indian chief, Anahwa, or from an ancient Mexican Indian place name. The town is in Chambers County.
What is Anahuac?
Natick mohkussin
What is moccasin?
Taysha, which means "friend" or "ally" in the Caddo Indian language.
What is Texas?
Tupi acajú
What is cashew?
From the Shawnee Indians; a group of these Indians settled on the upper Sabine River in the 1820s. There are at least 3 creeks with this name, in Angelina, Red River and Rusk counties.
What is Shawnee Creek?