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Who gave Massachusetts its nickname?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

The Massachusetts bay colony was named after the indigenous population, the Massachusetts, whose name can be segmented as mass-adchu-s-et, where mass- is "large", -achu- is "hill", -s- is a diminutive suffix meaning "small", and -et is a locative suffix, identifying a place.

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