Ohio – from Seneca ohi:yo’, "beautiful river".North Dakota and South Dakota – dakhóta comes from the Sioux word for "friend" or "ally".
New Mexico – the name "Mexico" comes from Nahuatl Mēxihco, of unknown derivation. Nebraska – from the Chiwere phrase ñįbraske, meaning "flattened water". Missouri – named for the Missouri tribe, whose name comes from Illinois mihsoori, "dugout canoe". Mississippi – from an Algonquian language, probably Ojibwe, meaning "big river" (Ojibwe misiziibi). Minnesota – from the Dakota phrase mni-sota, meaning "turbid water". Michigan – from the Ottawa phrase mishigami, meaning "large water" or "large lake".". Massachusetts – from an Algonquian language of southern New England, and apparently means "near the small big mountain", usually identified as Great Blue Hill on the border of Milton and Canton, Massachusetts (c.f. Kentucky – from an Iroquoian word meaning "at the meadow" or "on the prairie" (c.f. Iowa – from Dakota ayúxba or ayuxwe, via French Aiouez. Miami ilenweewa), from Proto-Algonquian *elen-, "ordinary" + -wē, "to speak", referring to the Illiniwek. Illinois – from the French rendering of an Algonquian (perhaps Miami) word apparently meaning "s/he speaks normally" (c.f. Idaho – may be from Plains Apache ídaahę́, "enemy", used to refer to the Comanches, or it may have been an invented word. Connecticut – from some Eastern Algonquian language of southern New England (perhaps Mahican), meaning "at the long tidal river" (after the Connecticut River). Arkansas – from the Illinois rendering of the tribal autonym kką:ze (see Kansas, below), which the Miami and Illinois used to refer to the Quapaw. 
Arizona – disputed origin likely from the O'odham phrase ali ṣona-g, meaning "having a little spring". Alaska – from the Aleut phrase alaxsxaq, meaning "the object towards which the action of the sea is directed"). Alabama – named for the Alibamu, a tribe whose name derives from a Choctaw phrase meaning "thicket-clearers" or "plant-cutters" (from albah, "(medicinal) plants", and amo, "to clear").
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