Word Origin Summary

Massachusetts is attested in English. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. MuhsachuweesutMassachusettderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• Massachusetts

  Italian · borrowed from

• แมสซาชูเซตส์

  Thai · borrowed from

• Masaĉuseco

  Esperanto · borrowed from

• Méésíchóoshish hahoodzo

  Navajo · borrowed from

• Massachusetts

  Finnish · borrowed from

• 매사추세츠

  Korean · borrowed from

• マサチューセッツ

  Japanese · borrowed from

• Massachusetts

  Danish · borrowed from

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