#2130

Indiana comes from English "land of the Indians"

#2131 (Iowa would be next, alphabetically, see above)

Kansas follows Iowa, see Arkansas.

#2132 Kentucky

It comes from an Iroquois word for 'meadow land'

#2133

Louisiana was named for King Louis XIV of France.

#2134

Maine is named after a French Province

#2135

Maryland is named after Henrietta Maria, queen to Charles I

#2136

Massachusetts comes from an Algonquian word for 'place of the big hill'

#2137

Michigan comes from a Chippewa word for 'big water'.

#2138

Minnesota comes from a Dakota Sioux term for 'sky-colored water'.

#2139

(damn telephone)

Mississippi (as an aside, studying the novel Sansibar, oder der letzte Grund in Germany and all the allusions to Huck Finn drove the Germans crazy, with all the Native American terms/spellings that I was quite used to. Oh well)

this one comes from the Chippewa for 'big river'

#2140

Missouri (that's miz-oo-ree if you live north of the mason-dixon line, and miz-oo-ruh if you're south of it ;) ).

comes from an Algonquian word via French for 'muddy waters'

#2141

Montana

comes from the Spanish for 'mountains'

#2142

Nebraska comes from an Omaha term for 'river in the flatness'

Nevada comes from the Spanish for snowy.

#2143

(numbers got off again, darn it)

#2144

New Hampshire is named after an English county.