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U.S. States by Etymology - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 139 times
- The average score is 22 of 49
Answer Stats
| Meaning | Language of Origin | State | Word in Original Language | % Correct |
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| "Country of the virgin", after Elizabeth I of England | Latin | Virginia | 99%
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| "Penn's woods" | Welsh and Latin | Pennsylvania | penn + silvania | 98%
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| "Country of the virgin", after Elizabeth I of England | Latin | West Virginia | 97%
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| "Flowery" | Spanish | Florida | florida | 90%
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| "Red island" | Dutch | Rhode Island | roodt eylandt | 87%
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| "Land of the Indians" | Latin | Indiana | 83%
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| Named after the Kaw tribe | Kansa via French | Kansas | kkan:ze via Cansez | 83%
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| "Ally or friend" | Sioux | North Dakota | dakhóta | 82%
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| "Ally or friend" | Sioux | South Dakota | dakhóta | 82%
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| Named after the Duke of York | English | New York | 77%
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| Named after the first president of the United States | English | Washington | 66%
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| Derived from the name of the Aztec god Metztli | Nahuatl via Spanish | New Mexico | Mēxihco via Nuevo México | 64%
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| Named after a county in south-east England | English | New Hampshire | 61%
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| Named for a fictional island ruled by Queen Calafia in the 16th-century novel Las Sergas de Esplandián | Spanish | California | 60%
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| Named after Queen Henrietta Maria of England | English | Maryland | 60%
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| "Snow-covered" | Spanish | Nevada | nevado | 60%
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| "Ruddy" or "red" | Spanish | Colorado | colorado | 59%
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| "Green mountain" | French | Vermont | vert + mont | 59%
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| "Mainland" | Aleut via Russian | Alaska | alaxsxaq via аляска | 57%
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| "Mountain" | Spanish | Montana | montaña | 57%
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| Named after Louis XIV of France | French | Louisiana | Louisiane | 56%
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| Named after the Ioway tribe | Chiwere via French | Iowa | ayuxwe via Aiouez | 53%
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| "Speaks normally" - referring to the Illiniwek tribes | Algonquian via French | Illinois | ilenweewa | 51%
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| Named after Hawaiki, legendary homeland of the Polynesians | Hawaiian | Hawaii | hawai'i | 48%
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| Named after King Charles I of England | Latin via English | North Carolina | Carolus via Carolana | 48%
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| Named after King Charles I of England | Latin via English | South Carolina | Carolus via Carolana | 47%
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| Named after King George II of Great Britain | Latin via English | Georgia | Georgius | 45%
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| "Cloudy water" | Lakota | Minnesota | mní sóta | 39%
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| "Named after the largest of the British Channel Islands" | French | New Jersey | 39%
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| "Large lake" | Ojibwe via French | Michigan | mishigami | 37%
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| "Friend" | Caddo via Spanish | Texas | táysha via Tejas | 26%
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| Borrowed from a French spelling of a Miami-Illinois rendering of a name for the Kaw tribe | Kansa via Miami-Illinois and French | Arkansas | akaansa | 25%
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| Named with reference to the mainland, as opposed to the coastal islands | English | Maine | main | 23%
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| "High" | Apache via Spanish | Utah | yúdah via yuta | 22%
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| "At the long tidal river" | Easter Algonquian | Connecticut | quinnitukqut | 21%
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| "Great river" | Ojibwe via French | Mississippi | misi-ziibi | 20%
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| Named after the first Governor-General of the Colony of Virginia | Norman French via English | Delaware | de la Warr | 18%
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| "Enemy" | Plains Apache | Idaho | ídaahę | 16%
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| Named after a Cherokee village, the meaning of which is unknown | Cherokee | Tennessee | tanasi | 16%
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| "River running through a red place" | Miami-Illinois via French | Wisconsin | wishkonsing via Ouisconsin | 16%
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| "Red people" | Choctaw | Oklahoma | okla + homa | 13%
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| "Flattened water" | Chiwere | Nebraska | ñįbraske | 11%
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| "Good oak" | Basque | Arizona | aritz ona | 9%
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| "On the meadow" | Mohawk | Kentucky | kenhtà:ke | 9%
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| "Near the great little-mountain" | Eastern Algonquian | Massachusetts | muswachusut | 8%
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| "Dugout canoe" | Miami-Illinois via French | Missouri | mihsoori | 8%
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| "Large creek" | Seneca via French | Ohio | ohi:yo | 8%
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| "Thicket clearers" | Choctaw | Alabama | alabamaaha | 7%
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| "At the big river flat" | Munsee | Wyoming | xwé:wamank | 1%
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