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Connecticut
kuh-NEHT-ih-kuht
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A state in the northeastern United States, named from an Algonquian word meaning "land on the long tidal river."
"They drove up the coast into Connecticut."
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Etymology
From a Mohegan-Pequot word, quinnitukqut, meaning "at the long tidal river."