Tippah River

{{short description|Stream in Mississippi, United States}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} '''Tippah River''' is a [[stream]] in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Mississippi]]. It is a tributary of the [[Tallahatchie River]].<ref name="GNIS">{{GNIS|694983|name=Tippah River}}</ref>

''Tippah'' is a name derived from the [[Choctaw language]] purported to mean "to eat one another", i.e. [[Human cannibalism|cannibalism]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Baca|first=Keith A.|title=Native American Place Names in Mississippi|url=https://epdf.pub/native-american-place-names-in-mississippi.html|year=2007|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-60473-483-6|page=113}}</ref> Variant names are "Tippah Creek" and Tippah River Canal".<ref name=GNIS />

==References== {{Reflist}}

{{coord|34.5309356|-89.4123004|display=title}}

{{authority control}}

[[Category:Rivers of Mississippi]] [[Category:Rivers of Benton County, Mississippi]] [[Category:Rivers of Marshall County, Mississippi]] [[Category:Bodies of water of Tippah County, Mississippi]] [[Category:Mississippi placenames of Native American origin]] [[Category:Tributaries of the Tallahatchie River]]

{{Mississippi-river-stub}}