What does Minnesota mean?

Question

What does Minnesota mean in the language Sioux?

Answer 1

Minnesota in Sioux means "cloudy water."

Answer 2

Minnesota, From a Dakota Indian word meaning “sky-tinted water"

and Minnesota is from a Dakota Sioux Indian word that means "cloudy water" or "sky water" and refers to local rivers.

Answer 3

.................WORD HISTORY:..........
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/Minnesota

Minnesotans may tell you that Minnesota in Sioux means "10,000 lakes," and they may attempt to prove it by pointing to the motto on their license plates.
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Minnesota in Sioux actually means "cloudy water,"
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an accurate description of the Minnesota River. Another popular etymology of a similar-sounding Indian name has Minnehaha meaning "laughing waters." It doesn't; it means "waterfalls." The misinterpretation began around 1849 when European settlers, not unreasonably, assumed that the Siouan -haha was an imitation of laughter just as in English, and hence that minnehaha meant "laughing waters." The folk etymology caught on and wound up in 1855 as the name of the heroine in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem The Song of Hiawatha.


ORIGIN OF MINNESOTA COUNTY NAMES
**This might be of some interest also**

http://www.sos.state.mn.us/student/coorigan.html

Answer 4

I'm pretty sure it means something about Beautiful Water or Clear Water or something.