Great-water or Great-lake
It is the Indian name for Lake Superior
Indian Lake, Ohio
the superiors
Sebago is a local American Indian name.
From Indian word "Michigana" meaning "great or large lake"
Lake Victoria. Even bigger is the Indian Ocean.
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It's from an Ojibwe Indian term "mishigami", which means "large lake" or "large water".
Great Slave Lake is the second largest lake in the Northwest Canadian territory and the deepest lake in North America. It is named for the Slave Indian tribe that used to live on its shores. Great Slave Lake was discovered by Samuel Hearne in 1771.
Tahoe is a lake between California and Nevada in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the name is taken from a local Indian dialect
The Canadian province of Ontario was one of the four initial Dominion of Canada provinces established in 1867 by the British North American Act. It took its name from the adjacent Lake Ontario. The lake's name came from the Huron indians' name for the lake, Ontari-io, meaning "great lake."
The name Michigan is based on the Chippewa Indian word "meicigama" meaning great water, and refers to the Great Lake.