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allamakee

/æ.lə.mə.ki/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.43 in modern English

Syllables
al-la-ma-kee
IPA
/æ.lə.mə.ki/
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The northeastern-most county in the state of Iowa in the United States.

Etymology

The origin of the name is uncertain, with local lore ascribing it to a Native American trader named Allan Makee and other sources suggesting that it derives from an Algonquian language term for the Thunder clan of the Sac/Fox people; compare Fox nenemehkiwa (“thunder”) and Ojibwe animikii (“thunderer”) (alternation of l and n is common in Algonquian languages and in words borrowed into or from them).

Word Breakdown

Questions

How do you pronounce allamakee?
The recorded pronunciation is /æ.lə.mə.ki/.
What does allamakee mean?
The northeastern-most county in the state of Iowa in the United States.
Where does allamakee come from?
The origin of the name is uncertain, with local lore ascribing it to a Native American trader named Allan Makee and other sources suggesting that it derives from an Algonquian language term for the Thunder clan of the Sac/Fox people; compare Fox nenemehkiwa (“thunder”) and Ojibwe animikii (“thunderer”) (alternation of l and n is common in Algonquian languages and in words borrowed into or from them).

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