The story
- Seneca · borrowed fromOhi꞉yoʼ
- English todayOhio
From Seneca Ohi꞉yoʼ, a proper name derived from ohi꞉yo꞉h (“good river”). The name of the Allegheny river, which the Lenape and Iroquois considered to be part of the same single river as the Ohio, means the same thing in Unami.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.