# List of Connecticut placenames of Native American origin

The following list includes settlements, geographic features, and political subdivisions of Connecticut whose names are derived from Native American languages.

## Listings
### State

* Connecticut – from some Eastern Algonquian language of southern New England (perhaps Mahican), meaning "at the long tidal river" (after the Connecticut River).

### Settlements

* Aspetuck: (Paugussett) "at the high place"
** Shared with the Aspetuck River.
* Cos Cob: (Mohegan from Cassacubque) "high rocks"
* Hockanum: (Podunk) "hook"
** Shared with the Hockanum River.
* Massapeag: (Mohegan) "place at the large cove"
* Mohegan: named after the Mohegan people.
* Mianus River (and town): (Paugussett) a 17th-century chief's name – "Mianu/Mayanno's"
* Moodus): (Wangunk) from "mache moodus" or "bad noises"
** Shared with the Moodus River and Moodus Reservoir.
* Moosup: (Narragansett) a chief named "Mausup"
* Mystic River (and town): (Pequot-Mohegan) "great tidal river"
* Naugatuck River (and town): (Quinnipiac) "single tree"
* Niantic River (and town): tribe; "point of land on tidal river"
* Norwalk River (and city): (Algonquian) noyank or "point of land" or from the name Naramauk.
* Oronoque: (Quinnipiac) "curved place" or "land at the bend"
* Pequabuck: (Wangunk) "clear, open pond"
* Poquonock Bridge: (Algonquian – several) "cleared land"
** Shared with the Poquonock River.
* Poquetanuck: (Mohegan) "land broken up" (like dried mud cracking)
* Quinebaug: (Nipmuck) "long pond"
** Shared with the Quinebaug River.
* Scitico: (Nipmuck) "land at the river branch"
* Taconic: (Mahican) "steep ascent"
* Uncasville: (Mohegan) 17th-century chief's name (wonkus – "fox")
* Willimantic River (and town): (Mohegan or Nipmuck) "good cedar swamp"
* Yantic: (Mohegan) "as far as the tide goes up this side of the river".
** Shared with the Yantic River.

### Bodies of water

* Congamuck Ponds (on Maine border Congamond Lake): (Nipmuck) "long fishing place"
* Coginchaug River: (Wangunk) "place where fish are dried/cured"
* Housatonic River: (Mahican) from the Mohican phrase "usi-a-di-en-uk", "beyond the mountain"
* Mashapaug Pond: (Nipmuck) "large pond"
* Menunketesuck River (and Menunketesuck Island): (Hammonasset) "strong flowing stream"
* Natchaug River: (Nipmuck) "between rivers"
* Nepaug Reservoir: (Wangunk) "fresh pond"
* Pachaug River (and pond): (Narragansett) "at the turning place"
* Pataguanset Lake: (Niantic) "at the round, shallow place"
* Pawcatuck River (Rhode Island border): (Niantic/Pequot) "the clear divided (tidal) stream"
* Pistapaug Pond: (Quinnipiac) "muddy pond"
* Pocotopaug Lake: (Wangunk) "divided pond" or "two ponds"
* Quaddick Reservoir: (Nipmuck) "bend in river" or (Narragansett) "boggy place"
* Lake Quassapaug: (Quinnipiac) "big pond" or "big rock"
* Quinnipiac River: (Quinnipiac) "where we change our route"
* Lake Quonnipaug: (Quinnipiac) "long pond"
* Saugatuck River: (Paugussett) "outlet of the tidal river"
* Shenipsit Lake: (Mohegan) "at the great pool"
* Shepaug River: (Tunxis) "great pond"
* Shetucket River: (Mohegan) "land between rivers"
* Shunock River: (Mohegan) "stony place" or possibly "place between streams"
* Skungamug River: (Nipmuck) "eel-fishing place"
* Wangum Lake: (Paugussett) "bend/crooked"
* Wangumbaug Lake: (Nipmuck) "crooked pond"
* Lake Waramaug: (Mahican) "good fishing-place"
* Winnepauk: (Mahican) "beautiful pond"
* Wononpacook Pond: (Mahican) "land at the bend in the pond"
* Wononskopomuc Lake: (Mahican) "rocks at the bend in the lake"
* Wopowaug River: (Wangunk) "crossing-place"
* Wyassup Lake: (Mohegan) "flags" or "rushes"

### Islands

* Cockenoe Island: (Montauk) from the name of a 17th-century native interpreter

### Other

* Connecticut, the state, and river: (in several dialects) "place of the long river" or "by the long tidal stream"
* Hammonassett Point: (Hammonassett) "place of sand bars"“where we dig holes in the ground,”
* Mohawk Mountain: eastern Iroquois tribe; Algonquian term for their western enemies – "wolves," "hungry animals," or "cannibals"
* Sachem Head: (Algonquian/general) "chief"