Here are a few from the list:
- ALABAMA. Possibly from the Creek Indian word alibamo, meaning "we stay here."
- COLORADO. Means "red" in Spanish. The name was originally applied to the Colorado River, whose waters are reddish with canyon clay.
- DELAWARE. Named after Lord De La Warr, a governor of Virginia. Originally used only to name the Delaware River.
- FLORIDA. Explorer Ponce de Leon named the state Pascua Florida - "flowery Easter"—on Easter Sunday in 1513.
- ILLINOIS. The French bastardization of the Algonquin word illini, which means "men."
- KANSAS. Taken from the Sioux word for "south wind people," their name for anyone who lived south of Sioux territory.
According to my knowledge of spanish "colorado" means "colored" as in spanish "color" is color while red is "rojo".
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