Kitchawan

Meanings

Proper Noun

• The group which lived along this river, a subdivision of the Mohican tribe.

Noun

• A member of this group.

Origin

• Perhaps from Munsee kíhtsiipoong, from kíhtsiipuw + -ung, from kíhch-, from Proto-Algonquian *keʔči-, + síipuw, from Proto-Algonquian *si·pi·wi. The river was later renamed after the group's chief, Croton.