Wampanoag people
An alternate derivation for "pumpkin" is the Massachusett word 'grows forth round'. This term would likely have been used by the Wampanoag people (who speak the dialect of Massachusett) when introducing pumpkins to English Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony, located in present-day Massachusetts. The English word "squash" is also derived from a Massachusett word, variously transcribed as , , or, in the closely-related Narragansett language, .