Conestoga
Meanings
name
- A river in Pennsylvania, United States.
noun
- Synonym of Susquehannock, a member of a North Iroquoian people formerly living in Pennsylvania and Maryland.
- A type of draft horse developed in Pennsylvania.
- Ellipsis of Conestoga wagon.
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Etymology
From Susquehannock kanahstó:ke (the name of a settlement, now Conestoga, Pennsylvania). According to Mithun, British colonists based the name on the Mohawk word tekanastoge (“place of the upright pole”). It may also be the anglicized form of Gandastogue, which may have been close to what the Susquehannock called themselves.
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