The story
- Abenaki · borrowed fromKtaden, Ktaaden“great mountain”
- English todayKatahdin
From Abenaki Ktaden, Ktaaden (“great mountain”), from kta-, gita- (“great”) (compare Penobscot kta- (“great”)) + aden (“mountain”) (whence also monadnock). Cognate to Penobscot Ktàtən.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.