LENAPE LANGUAGE

The FREE DICTIONARY defines "Mississippi" as a river and a state.
TheFREE DICTIONARY does not tell the viewers the origin of the LENAPE words.  So the viewer DOES NOT know the origin of the LENAPE words was Old Norse.
Old Norse is a language very much alive.  It is taught to kids in Iceland.
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For Missouri, 

divide the name into MIS @MESV2079a and SOURI @ SOUV1299a.

For Mississippi use the MIS above

MISTA = of LARGE dimensions

and look for SIP @ SIPV113 and  SIPV3114

SVIPA = SWIFTLY

So the original meaning of Mississippi may have been to "start on a large river and to travel swiftly."

That definition fits meaning the MISSISSIPPI word of a thousand years ago.
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Defining the Mississippi as a river does not explain what the original sounds meant.  Defining Mississippi as a state would not have been a workable concept 1OOO years ago.

Rieder T. Sherwin's statement that the Old Norse is the source of the Algonquin Language is more valid than the FREE DICTIONARY definitions.

The FREE DICTIONARY continues to support the English MYTH that the LANAPE Language came from indigenours people or people, who walked to American from Asia.
Sherwin complied 15,000 LENAPE sounds to prove that Old Norse was the origin of the Algonquin language.
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The pervasive English MYTH is taught by nearly all professors, who learned the MYTH from their authorities, their teachers.