Ohio

Meaning

Proper Noun

• state US (country) .
• river US (country) flowing 981 miles from the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela at Pittsburgh into the Mississippi at Cairo, Illinois.
• locale US (country) ; named for the state.
• locale Nova Scotia (province) Canada (country).

Origin

• From Seneca ohiːyoʼ, a proper name derived from ohiːyoːh. The name of the Allegheny river, which the Lenape and Iroquois considered to be part of the same single river as the Ohio, means the same thing in Unami.