Chesapeake

Meanings

Any member of a Native American tribe that once inhabited the area now known as South Hampton Roads in Virginia, United States.

From Chesepiook, from Algonquin chesepiooc.
It was widely believed for a long time that "Chesapeake" means something like "Great Shellfish Bay." However, according to Blair Rudes, linguist at the University of North Carolina, the name might actually mean something like "Great Water," or it might have been simply the name of a village at the bay's mouth.

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