English Explanatory Dictionary

Allamakee

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The northeastern-most county in the state of Iowa in the United States.

Pronunciation

/æ.lə.mə.ki/ /ɑ.lə.mə.ki/

Word forms

Allamakee

Etymology

The origin of the name is uncertain, with local lore ascribing it to a Native American trader named Allan Makee and other sources suggesting that it derives from an Algonquian language term for the Thunder clan of the Sac/Fox people; compare Fox nenemehkiwa (“thunder”) and Ojibwe animikii (“thunderer”) (alternation of l and n is common in Algonquian languages and in words borrowed into or from them).

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