The story
- Ojibwe · derived frommisizaagii“inhabitant of large river mouth”
- French · borrowed fromMississague
- English todayMississauga
From French Mississague, from Ojibwe misizaagii (“inhabitant of large river mouth”) (with reference to the area where the Mississauga River drains into Lake Huron). Doublet of massasauga.
Words from the same roots
FrenchMississague all →
massasauga
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.