Editing Utah (section)

== Etymology ==

The name ''Utah'' derives from the name of the [[Ute tribe]], meaning 'people of the mountains'.<ref name="Utah Quick Facts">{{Cite web |url=http://www.utah.gov/about/quickfacts.html |title=Utah Quick Facts |access-date=August 31, 2023 |archive-date=April 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210425084602/http://www.utah.gov/about/quickfacts.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> However, no such word exists in the Utes' language, and the Utes refer to themselves as {{lang|ute|Noochee}}. The meaning of ''Utes'' as 'the mountain people' has been attributed to the neighboring [[Puebloans|Pueblo Indians]],<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.deseretnews.com/article/363685/UTAH--THE-RIDDLE-BEHIND-THE-NAME.html |title=Utah: The Riddle Behind The Name |date=July 10, 1994 |work=[[Deseret News]] |access-date=May 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181013204738/https://www.deseretnews.com/article/363685/UTAH--THE-RIDDLE-BEHIND-THE-NAME.html |archive-date=October 13, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> as well as to the [[Apache language|Apache]] word {{lang|apa|Yuttahih}}, which means 'one that is higher up' or 'those that are higher up'.<ref name="Utah Quick Facts"/> In [[Spanish language|Spanish]], it was pronounced {{lang|es|Yuta}}; subsequently, English-speaking people may have adapted the word as ''Utah''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Carvajal |first1=Guillermo |title=El desconocido origen español del nombre de ocho Estados de Norteamérica |trans-title=The unknown Spanish origin of the name of eight States of North America |url=http://www.abc.es/tecnologia/redes/20140113/abci-desconocido-origen-espanol-nombre-201401131030.html |work=[[ABC (newspaper)|ABC]] |date=January 13, 2014 |access-date=May 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603202702/http://www.abc.es/tecnologia/redes/20140113/abci-desconocido-origen-espanol-nombre-201401131030.html |archive-date=June 3, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>