large like a snapping turtle", or from Ojibwe mishi-makinaak , "large snapping turtle" with French -ile- , "island". Moccasin † From an Algonquian language, perhaps Powhatan <mockasin>, [ 23 ] reconstituted as * /mahkesen/ [ 24 ] (c.f. Ojibwe makizin , [ 2 ] Míkmaq mɨkusun [ 25 ] , from