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The others I knew but Lake Michigan I did not, which prompted me to look it up: > The name derives from a gallicized variant of the original Ojibwe word ᒥᓯᑲᒥ (
by SllX 2y ago
The others I knew but Lake Michigan I did not, which prompted me to look it up:
> The name derives from a gallicized variant of the original Ojibwe word ᒥᓯᑲᒥ (mishigami),[c] meaning "large water" or "large lake".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan
TIL. To be fair, there is a whole landmass right next to that mishigami sharing a name we do need to distinguish it from.
- BobaFloutist 2y agoIt's kind of funny how much the sounds of mishigami feel like they could equally have come from Hebrew or Japanese. Interesting overlap of mouth-feel.