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List of place names in Maryland of Native American origin
This is a list of Native American place names in the U.S. state of Maryland. These include counties, townships, cities, towns, and villages.
(詳細はAllegany County - From the Lenape word ''welhik hane''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=welhik )〕〔"Heckewelder here does not give the strict meaning of ''hanne''. The word in common use among Algonkin (Algonquian ) tribes for river is ''sipu'', and this includes the idea of 'a stream of flowing water'. But in the mountainous parts of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia ''sipu'' did not sufficiently convey the idea of a rapid stream, roaring down mountain gorges, and ''hanne'' takes its place to designate not a mere ''sipu'', or flowing river, but a rapid mountain stream." 〕 or ''oolikhanna,'' which means 'best flowing river of the hills' or 'beautiful stream'.〔Alleghany, or as some prefer to write it, Allegheny,—the Algonkin name of the Ohio River, but now restricted to one of its branches,—is probably (Delaware) ''welhik-hanné'' or ''()lik-hanné'', 'the best (or, the fairest) river.' ''Welhik'' (as Zeisberger wrote it) is the inanimate form of the adjectival, meaning 'best,' 'most beautiful.' In his Vocabulary, Zeisberger gave this synthesis, with slight change of orthography, as "''Wulach'neü''" '', as Eliot would have written it,] with the free translation, "a fine River, without Falls." The name was indeed more likely to belong to rivers 'without falls' or other obstruction to the passage of canoes, but its literal meaning is, as its composition shows, "best rapid-stream," or "finest rapid-stream;" "La Belle Riviere" of the French, and the ''Oue-yo´'' or ''O hee´ yo Gä-hun´-dä'', "good river" or "the beautiful river," of the Senecas. For this translation of the name we have very respectable authority,—that of Christian Frederick Post, a Moravian of Pennsylvania, who lived seventeen years with the Muhhekan Indians and was twice married among them, and whose knowledge of the Indian languages enabled him to render important services to the colony, as a negotiator with the Delawares and Shawanese of the Ohio, in the French war. In his "Journal from Philadelphia to the Ohio" in 1758, after mention of the 'Alleghenny' river, he says: "The Ohio, as it is called by the Sennecas. ''Alleghenny'' is the name of the same river in the Delaware language. Both words signify the fine or fair river." La Metairie, the notary of La Salle's expedition, "calls the Ohio, the ''Olighinsipou'', or ''Aleghin''; evidently an Algonkin name,"—as Dr. Shea remarks. Heckewelder says that the Delawares "still call the Allegany (Ohio) river, ''Alligéwi Sipu'',"—"the river of the Alligewi" as he chooses to translate it. In one form, we have ''wulik-hannésipu'', 'best rapid-stream long-river;' in the other, ''wuliké-sipu'', 'best long-river.' Heckewelder's derivation of the name, on the authority of a Delaware legend, from the mythic 'Alligewi' or 'Talligewi,'—"a race of Indians said to have once inhabited that country," who, after great battles fought in pre-historic times, were driven from it by the all-conquering Delawares,—is of no value, unless supported by other testimony. 〕
* Patuxent County - established in 1654 by an Order in Council.〔Calvert County Guide states that it was the Puritans, who named it for a Native American word meaning "place where tobacco grows"〕 In 1658 the county was renamed Calvert County.〔Maryland Online Encyclopedia ''Calvert County''〕 Named for the Patuxent people, an Algonquian-speaking tribe who were loosely affiliated with the Piscataway tribe.
* Wicomico County - named for the Wicomico River, which in turn derives from the Algonquian words ''wicko mekee,'' meaning "a place where houses are built," apparently referring to a Native American town on the banks.
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