Appalachian
Detail of Gutierrez' 1562 map showing the first known cartographic appearance of a variant of Appalachia(n).
Meanings
Adjective
- Referring to the region of Appalachia or its characteristics.
- Referring to the people and culture of Appalachia.
Noun
- A person from Appalachia.
Proper Noun
- The dialect of people from Appalachia.
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Origin
- From a Native American village near present-day Tallahassee, Florida transcribed in Spanish as Apalchen or Apalachen [a.paˈla.tʃɛn]. Originally the name of the Apalachee, a Muskogean people of northwestern Florida, perhaps from Apalachee abalahci "other side of the river" or Hitchiti (Muskogean) apalwahči "dwelling on one side." The name was eventually used also for the tribe and region spreading well inland to the north. Now spelled "Appalachian", it is the fourth oldest surviving European-given place-name in the US after Florida, the Dry Tortugas and Cape Canaveral. After the de Soto expedition in 1540, Spanish cartographers began to apply the name of the tribe to the mountains themselves.
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