Poughkeepsie

English

Etymology

From a word in Wappinger Munsee, roughly U-puku-ipi-sing (“the reed-covered lodge by the little-water place”).[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pəˈkɪpsi/
  • Rhymes: -ɪpsi

Proper noun

Poughkeepsie

  1. A city, the county seat of Dutchess County, New York, United States.

References
  1. Paul Joffe (2008) Where'e Poughkeepsie? Finding The Lost Spring‎
  2. “Poughkeepsie”, in Encyclopædia Britannica Online‎, Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2012
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