The state is named after theWyoming Valley in Pennsylvania, which derives its name fromMunseexwé:wamənk(literally“at the big river flat”).
The village of Wyoming, Plympton Township, Ontario, Canada may have a different origin: "...to the Chippewas, the 'oat planters' were known asmoonooming. The white settlers took this to sound like 'Wyoming.'"[1]
Wyoming
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Wyoming (genitiveWyomings)
Wyoming
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) areused with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Wyoming" isWyomingissa.
| Inflection ofWyoming (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Wyoming | — | |
| genitive | Wyomingin | — | |
| partitive | Wyomingia | — | |
| illative | Wyomingiin | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Wyoming | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Wyoming | — |
| gen. | Wyomingin | ||
| genitive | Wyomingin | — | |
| partitive | Wyomingia | — | |
| inessive | Wyomingissa | — | |
| elative | Wyomingista | — | |
| illative | Wyomingiin | — | |
| adessive | Wyomingilla | — | |
| ablative | Wyomingilta | — | |
| allative | Wyomingille | — | |
| essive | Wyomingina | — | |
| translative | Wyomingiksi | — | |
| abessive | Wyomingitta | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
FromMunseexwé:wamənk(literally“at the big river flat”).
Wyoming m
Wyoming n (proper noun,genitiveWyomingsor(optionally with an article)Wyoming)
Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishWyoming.
Wyoming m
Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishWyoming, fromMunseexwé:wamənk(literally“at the big river flat”).
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Wyoming |
| genitive | Wyomingu |
| dative | Wyomingowi |
| accusative | Wyoming |
| instrumental | Wyomingiem |
| locative | Wyomingu |
| vocative | Wyomingu |
Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishWyoming.
Wyoming m
Wyoming n
Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishWyoming.
Wyoming m
Wyoming on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipediaes