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The name of this state may have come from the algonquian indian name kwenihtekot for the river that flows through the area or the indian word quienetecquet?
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Connecticut. You have clearly been looking at the misinformation provided on a widely-used but wildly inaccurate website (Wikipedia).
The name is a corrupted white American version of the Mohegan place name made up of the elements quni-(long) + áhsit (river) + uk (at).
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