English to afrikaans meaning of

connecticut

Connecticut is 'n staat geleë in die noordoostelike streek van die Verenigde State. Dit is ook die naam van die staat se amptelike Engelstalige naam.As jy egter na die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "Connecticut" vra, is dit afgelei van die Mohegan-Pequot-woord "Quinnehtukqut" wat "lang getyrivier" beteken. Dit verwys na die Connecticutrivier, wat deur die staat vloei en 'n groot bron van vervoer en handel vir inheemse Amerikaanse stamme en vroeë Europese setlaars was.

Sentence Examples

  1. Introductions were made to the Duniways from Connecticut, a stately couple on the island to handle a household crisis.
  2. He would delight them equally by his anecdotes of witchcraft, and of the direful omens and portentous sights and sounds in the air, which prevailed in the earlier times of Connecticut and would frighten them woefully with speculations upon comets and shooting stars and with the alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsy-turvy!
  3. Today, he was taking them back to their mother in Greenwich, Connecticut.
  4. Old money, family has investments and concerns up in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
  5. He was a native of Connecticut, a State which supplies the Union with pioneers for the mind as well as for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters.
random

Random Words