Editing Chesapeake Bay (section)

==Etymology==
The word {{lang|alg|Chesepiooc}} is an [[Algonquian languages|Algonquian]] word referring to a village 'at a big river'. It is the seventh-oldest surviving English placename in the United States, first applied as ''Chesepiook'' by explorers heading north from the [[Roanoke Colony]] into a Chesapeake tributary in 1585 or 1586. The name may also refer to the [[Chesapeake people]] or the Chesepian, a Native American tribe who inhabited the area now known as South [[Hampton Roads]] in the U.S. state of Virginia. They occupied an area that is now the Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, and Virginia Beach areas.<ref>Also shown as ''Chisupioc'' (by [[John Smith of Jamestown|John Smith]]) and ''Chisapeack'', in Algonquian {{lang|alg|che}} means 'big' or 'great', {{lang|alg|sepi}} means river, and the {{lang|alg|oc}} or {{lang|alg|ok}} ending indicated something (a village, in this case) 'at' that feature.  {{lang|alg|Sepi}} is also found in another placename of [[Algonquian languages|Algonquian]] origin, [[Mississippi River|Mississippi]]. The name was soon transferred by the English from the big river and the village at that site to the entire bay. {{cite book |title=Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States |url=https://archive.org/details/namesofland0000unse |url-access=registration |last=Stewart |first=George |author-link=George R. Stewart |year=1945 |publisher=Random House |location=New York |page=[https://archive.org/details/namesofland0000unse/page/23 23] }}</ref> In 2005, Algonquian linguist [[Blair Rudes]] "helped to dispel one of the area's most widely held beliefs: that 'Chesapeake' means something like 'great shellfish bay'. It does not, Rudes said. The name might have actually meant something like 'great water', or it might have just referred to a village location at the bay's mouth."<ref>{{cite news |title=A Dead Indian Language Is Brought Back to Life |last=Farenthold |first=David A. |newspaper=The Washington Post|date=2006-12-12 |page=A1 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/11/AR2006121101474_2.html |access-date=2007-03-19 }}</ref>