Editing Alaska (section)

==Etymology==
The name "Alaska" ({{langx|ru|Аля́ска|Aljáska}}) was introduced during the [[Russian America|Russian colonial period]] when it was used to refer to the [[Alaska Peninsula]]. It was derived from an [[Aleut language|Aleut-language]] [[idiom]], {{Lang|ale|alaxsxaq}}, meaning "the mainland" or, more literally, "the object towards which the action of the sea is directed".<ref name=Aleut>{{cite book|title=Aleut Dictionary: Unangam Tunudgusii |editor=Bergsland, Knut |publisher=Alaska Native Language Center|year=1994|isbn=978-1-55500-047-9}}, at pp. 49 (Alaxsxi-x = mainland Alaska), 50 (''alagu-x'' = ''sea''), 508 (''-gi'' = suffix, ''object of its action'').</ref><ref name=Bright>{{cite book |title=Native American Placenames in the United States|last=Bright|first=William|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|year=2007|isbn=978-0806135984}}</ref><ref>Ransom, J. Ellis. 1940. "Derivation of the Word 'Alaska'", ''American Anthropologist'' n.s., 42: pp. 550–551</ref>