Editing Otsego County, Michigan (section)

==Etymology==
Otsego may be a [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] name meaning "place of the rock". However, an alternative theory is that it derives from a lake and a county in [[New York (state)|New York]] state, which are said to bear the name derived from a Mohawk Iroquoian word meaning either "clear water" or "meeting place."<ref>{{Cite web |title=History |url=http://www.otsegocountymi.gov/history.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080219142406/http://www.otsegocountymi.gov/history.htm |archive-date=February 19, 2008 |publisher=Otsego County}}</ref> It may be a [[neologism]] coined by [[Henry Schoolcraft]], who was a borrower of words and pieces of words from many languages (including Arabic, Greek, Latin, and various American Indian languages).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Michigan Counties |url=http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-15481_20826_20829-54126--,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090313052757/https://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-15481_20826_20829-54126--,00.html |archive-date=March 13, 2009 |publisher=Michigan Department of History, Arts and Libraries}}</ref>  See [[List of Michigan county name etymologies]].