The name is of Shetimasha origin, I have reasons to assume. Náksh in that language means _one that is in a hurry, one running_, náksh así,[26] abbrev. náksh _warrior_; and the earliest French explorers may have heard that name from the Shetimasha Indians settled on the Mississippi, where Bayou Lafourche, also called the river of the Shetimasha, branches off from it. Should the name belong to the Chicasa trade language, we might think of the Cha'hta adverb: naksika _aside, away from_, referring to the site of the Naktche villages at some distance from the great "water-road," the Mississippi river.