Shawmut, according to 19th-century scholarship, is a term derived from the Algonquian word Mashauwomuk referring to the region of present-day Boston, Massachusetts.[1] It appears in a number of present-day placenames.
- ^ Forsford, Eben Norton, The Indian names of Boston, and their meaning
University Press, 1886.
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