Ohio under the name of
Alligewinengk, meaning "the land in which they arrived from distant places, " basing
his interpretation upon an etymology compounded from talli or alii, there, icku, to
that place, and ewak, they go, with a locative final. Ettwein, another Moravian
writer, says the Delawares called "the western country" Alligewenork, meaning a
warpath, and called the river Alligewi Sipo. This definition would make the word
come from palliton or attiton, to fight, to make war, ewak, they go, and a locative, i. e.,
"they go there to fight." Trumbull, an authority on Algonquian languages, derives
the river name from v<ulik, good, best, hanne, rapid stream, and sipu, river, of which
rendering its Iroquois name, Ohio, is nearly an equivalent. Rafinesque renders Tal-
ligewi as "there found," from talli, there, and some other root, not givenDelaware dic-
tionary, however, we find wuloh or walok, signifying a cave or hole, while in the
"Walam Olum" we have oligonunk rendered "at the place of caves," the region
being further described as a buffalo land on a pleasant plain, where the Lenape',
advancing seaward from a less abundant northern region, at last found food (Walam
Olum, pp. 194-195). Unfortunately, like other aboriginal productions of its kind
among the northern tribes, the Lenape chronicle is suggestive rather than complete
and connected. With more light it may be that seeming discrepancies would disap-
pear and we should find at last that the Cherokee, in ancient times as in the historic
period, were always the southern vanguard of the Iroquoian race, always primarily
a mountain people, but with their flank resting upon the Ohio and its great tribu-
taries, following