NEBRASKA PLACE-NAMES

BY

LILIAN LINDER FITZPATRICK, A.M.

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE

        LOUISE POUND, Ph.D., Department of English
                H. B. ALEXANDER, Ph.D., Department of Philosophy
                        Louis H. GRAY, Ph.D., Department of Ancient Languages

LINCOLN
1925

NEBRASKA

Nebraska, the name of the state, is derived from an Omaha Indian name meaning "flat water." In the Omaha Indian language the name is Nibthaska; ni, water, and bthaska, flat. This name was given by the Indians to the Platte river because it is a broad, shallow body of water. It is from this river that the name Nebraska was taken for the state. One frequently reads the statement that the name Nebraska is derived from "Ne'-brath-ke" or "Ne'-prath-ke" from the languages of the Omaha and Otoe Indian tribes but these words are only approximations. There is no r in the Omaha Indian language. In the Otoe Indian language the name is Nibrathka; ni, water, and brathka, flat. A variant is Niprathka. The p and b are only approximate sounds.

INDEX

Alphabetical Town Index
(Not in book - added)

PART 1:	\| Adams \| Antelope \| Arthur \| Banner \| Blaine \| \| Boone \| Box Butte \| Boyd \| Brown \|
PART 2:	\| Buffalo \| Burt \| Butler \| Cass \| Cedar \|
PART 3:	\| Chase \| Cherry \| Cheyenne \| Clay \| Colfax \| \| Cuming \| Custer \| Dakota \| Dawes \|
PART 4:	\| Dawson \| Deuel \| Dixon \| Dodge \| Douglas \| \| Dundy \| Fillmore \| Franklin \| Frontier \| Furnas \| \| Gage \| Garden \|
PART 5:	\| Garfield \| Gosper \| Grant \| Greeley \| Hall \| \| Hamilton \| Harlan \| Hayes \| Hitchcock \| Holt \|
PART 6:	\| Hooker \| Howard \| Jefferson \| Johnson \| \| Kearney \| Keith \| Keya Paha \| Kimball \| \| Knox \| Lancaster \|
PART 7:	\| Lincoln \| Logan \| Loup \| McPherson \| Madison \| \| Merrick \| Morrill \| Nance \| Nemaha \|
PART 8:	\| Nuckolls \| Otoe \| Pawnee \| Perkins \| Phelps \| \| Pierce \| Platte \| Polk \| Red Willow \|
PART 9:	\| Richardson \| Rock \| Saline \| Sarpy \| Saunders \| \| Scotts Bluff \|
PART 10:	\| Seward \| Sheridan \| Sherman \| Sioux \| Stanton \| \| Thayer \| Thomas \| Thurston \| Valley \| \| Washington \| Wayne \| Webster \| Wheeler \| \| York \|