Piscataquis County

Etymology
Generally agreed to be from a word meaning "branch of the river" or "at the river branch"; see also. Relatedly, asserted that the word  came from  +, which if true may hint at a French-colonial-era European appellation for the American Indians of the area (fishermen, on the Romance pattern of fish+waters=fisherman, seen in various other Romance compounds), but this may be merely a  by monolingual English speakers, as many sources say that , , and  come from Native American words for waters, although they vary on what sort of waters (e.g., river branch, river bend, river rapids).