Connecticut
Common dialects of the Algonquian languages: Hammonasset, Mahican, Montauk, Niantic, Paugussett, Pequot-Mohegan, Podunk, Poquonock, Quinnipiac, Tunxi, Wangunk
- Connecticut, the state, and river: (in several dialects) "place of the long river" or "by the long tidal stream"
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- Aspetuck River (and town): (Paugussett) "at the high place"
- Cockenoe Island: (Montauk) from the name of a 17th-century native interpreter
- Coginchaug River: (Wangunk) "place where fish are dried/cured"
- Congamuck Ponds (on MA border Congamond Lake): (Nipmuck) "long fishing place"
- Cos Cob: (Mohegan from Cassacubque) "high rocks"
- Hammonassett Point: (Hammonassett) "place of sand bars"
- Hockanum River (and community): (Podunk) "hook"
- Housatonic River: (Mahican) "beyond the mountain"
- Mashapaug Pond: (Nipmuck) "large pond"
- Massapeag: (Mohegan) "place at the large cove"
- Mianus River (and town): (Paugussett) a 17th-century chief's name – "Mianu/Mayanno's"
- Mohawk Mountain: eastern Iroquois tribe; Algonquian term for their western enemies – "wolves," "hungry animals," or "cannibals"
- Mohegan: tribe; "hungry animal" or "wolf"
- Moodus River (also reservoir, and village): (Wangunk) from "mache moodus" or "bad noises" (the Moodus noises)
- Moosup: (Narragansett) a chief named "Mausup"
- Mystic River (and town): (Pequot-Mohegan) "great tidal river"
- Naugatuck River (and town): (Quinnipiac) "single tree"
- Natchaug River: (Nipmuck) "between rivers"
- Nepaug Reservoir: (Wangunk) "fresh pond"
- Niantic River (and town): tribe; "point of land on tidal river"
- Norwalk River (and city): (Algonquian) noyank or "point of land" or from the name Naramauke
- Oronoque: (Quinnipiac) "curved place" or "land at the bend"
- Pachaug River (and pond): (Narragansett} "at the turning place"
- Pataguanset Lake: (Niantic) "at the round, shallow place"
- Pawcatuck River (RI border): (Niantic/Pequot) "the clear divided (tidal) stream"
- Pequabuck: (Wangunk) "clear, open pond"
- Pistapaug Pond: (Quinnipiac) "muddy pond"
- Pocotopaug Lake: (Wangunk) "divided pond" or "two ponds"
- Poquetanuck: (Mohegan) "land broken up" (like dried mud cracking)
- Poquonock Bridge and river: (Algonquian – several) "cleared land"
- Quaddick Reservoir: (Nipmuck) "bend in river" or (Narragansett) "boggy place"
- Lake Quassapaug: (Quinnipiac) "big pond" or "big rock"
- Quinebaug River (and town): (Nipmuck) "long pond"
- Quinnipiac River: (Quinnipiac) "where we change our route"
- Lake Quonnipaug: (Quinnipiac) "long pond"
- Sachem Head: (Algonquian/general) "chief"
- Saugatuck River: (Paugussett) "outlet of the tidal river"
- Scitico: (Nipmuck) "land at the river branch"
- Shenipsit Lake: (Mohegan) "at the great pool"
- Shepaug River: (Tunxis) "great pond"
- Shetucket River: (Mohegan) "land between rivers"
- Shunock River: ((Mohegan) "stony place" or possibly "place between streams"
- Skungamug River: (Nipmuck) "eel-fishing place"
- Taconic: (Mahican) "steep ascent"
- Uncasville: (Mohegan) 17th-century chief's name (wonkus – "fox")
- Wangum Lake: (Paugussett) "bend/crooked"
- Wangumbaug Lake: (Nipmuck) "crooked pond"
- Wangumgaug Lake: "crooked pond"
- Lake Waramaug: (Mahican) "good fishing-place"
- Willimantic River (and town): (Mohegan or Nipmuck) "good cedar swamp"
- Winnepauk: (Mahican) "beautiful pond"
- Wononpacook Pond: (Mahican) "land at the bend in the pond"
- Wononskopomuc Lake: (Mahican) "rocks at the bend in the lake"
- Wopowaug River: ((Wangunk) "crossing-place"
- Wopowog: (Wangunk) "crossing-place"
- Wyassup Lake: (Mohegan) "flags" or "rushes"
- Yantic River (and town): (Mohegan) "as far as the tide goes up this side of the river"
- Former names:
- Mameeg or Nameeg: (Pequot-Mohegan) "fishing place" New London
- Miamogue: (Paugussett) "where we come together to fish" Bridgeport (harbor)
- Nawaas: general name for Connecticut
Read more about this topic: List Of Place Names In New England Of Aboriginal Origin