Editing Tennessee (section)

==Etymology==
{{main|Name of Tennessee}}
[[File:Timberlake-map-tanasi-1765.jpg|thumb|left|alt=Drawing of Tanasi, Tennessee's namesake, by Henry Timberlake|Detail of [[Tanasi]] (spelled "Tennessee") on [[Henry Timberlake]]'s [[:File:Draught of the Cherokee Country.jpg|''Draught of the Cherokee Country'']]]]

Tennessee derives its name most directly from the [[Cherokee]] town of [[Tanasi]] (or "Tanase", in [[Cherokee syllabary|syllabary]]: ᏔᎾᏏ) in present-day [[Monroe County, Tennessee]], on the Tanasi River, now known as the [[Little Tennessee River]]. In 1567, [[Conquistador|Spanish explorer]] Captain [[Juan Pardo (explorer)|Juan Pardo]] and his party encountered a [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] village named "Tanasqui" in the area while traveling inland from modern-day [[South Carolina]]; however, it is unknown if this was the same settlement as Tanasi.{{efn|Recent research suggests that the town Pardo recorded was at the confluence of the [[Pigeon River (Tennessee–North Carolina)|Pigeon River]] and the [[French Broad River]], near modern-day [[Newport, Tennessee]].<ref name=hudson>{{cite book |last=Hudson |first=Charles M. |author-link=Charles M. Hudson |date=2005 |title=The Juan Pardo Expeditions: Explorations of the Carolinas and Tennessee, 1566–1568 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NyAD-F3Q85kC |location=Tuscaloosa, AL |publisher=[[University of Alabama Press]] |pages=36–40 |isbn=9780817351908 |via=Google Books}}</ref>}} The town appeared on British maps as early as 1725. Recent research suggests that the Cherokees adapted the name from the [[Yuchi]] word ''Tana-tsee-dgee'', meaning "brother-waters-place" or "where-the-waters-meet".<ref name="McBride THQ 1971">{{cite journal |last=McBride |first=Robert M. |title=Editor's Page |journal=Tennessee Historical Quarterly |date=Winter 1971|volume=30 |issue=4 |page=344 |jstor=42623257}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tngenweb.org/campbell/hist-bogan/tennessee.html |title=Tennessee's Name Dates Back To 1567 Spanish Explorer Captain Juan Pardo |publisher=Tngenweb.org |date=January 1, 2005 |access-date=July 31, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110103222507/http://www.tngenweb.org/campbell/hist-bogan/tennessee.html |archive-date=January 3, 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Woktela, Who Were the Yuchi">{{cite web |last=Hackett (Woktela) |first=David |title=Who Were the Mysterious Yuchi of Tennessee and the Southeast? |url=http://yuchi.org |website=Yuchi.org |access-date=January 23, 2022}}</ref> The modern spelling, ''Tennessee'', is attributed to Governor [[James Glen]] of South Carolina, who used this spelling in his official correspondence during the 1750s. In 1788, North Carolina created "[[Tennessee County, Tennessee|Tennessee County]]", and in 1796, a [[Constitutional convention (political meeting)|constitutional convention]], organizing the new state from the [[Southwest Territory]], adopted "Tennessee" as the state's name.{{sfn|Langsdon|2000|p=23}}