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Many states get their names from American Indian words. For example the state of Kentucky gets its name from an Iroquois word kentahten. What does that word mean in the Iroquois language?
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The Cayugas are part of the Iroquois confederacy. Their traditional language is Cayuga which may also be spelled Gayogohó:no'. However, other Iroquois dialects are spoken too.
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"American Indian" is not a language. You would need to be more specific: Cherokee, Arapaho, Iroquois...
What is Kentucky's native language?
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What does that word mean in the Iroquois language kentahten?
Future Land
Kentahten means what in Iroquois language?
It is Iroquoan for "future land" or "land of tomorrow".
What came up with the name Kentucky?
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Iroquois
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How do you use Iroquois in sentence's?
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In Iroquois language Ife means chief?
There is no "Iroquois language". Each tribe of the Iroquois League spoke its own individual language (Oneida, Seneca, Onondaga, Cayuga and Mohawk). These are all related but individual languages, each with its own words for a chief.In Oneida the word for a chief is -hsʌnowanʌ- or thuwakwa·nʌ́ or -atlutanuˀn-In Cayuga a chief is hadigowanęs or hodiyanehsǫ or hoyanehIn Tuscarora (a later addition to the Iroquois League) a chief is rahgawahneh.The word Ife appears to refer to an ancient city in the African kingdom of Yoruba (part of Nigeria). It has no connection at all with any native American language.
