Etymology

Chattahoochee

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Today it means: the Chattahoochee River in Georgia, Alabama and Florida, USA, which flows into the Apalachicola River. Full definition →

Creek chato
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The story

  1. Creek · derived fromchato“rock”
  2. English todayChattahoochee

From Creek chato (“rock”) + huchi (“marked, painted”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.