American (word) ("United States person"), which derives from ' ("United States of America"). The Spanish term ' ("North American") is frequently used to refer things and persons from the United States, but this term can also denote people and things from Canada and Mexico. Among Spanish-speakers, North America generally doesn't include Central America or the Caribbean. In other languages, however, there is no possibility for confusion. For example, the Chinese word for "U.S. national" is ' () is derived from a word for the United States, ', where ' is an abbreviation for "Yàměilìjiā" ("America") and ' is "country". The name for
Iroquois translate as "murderers". The Five Nations historically referred to themselves by a different autonym, Haudenosaunee, meaning "People of the Longhouse". It is also occasionally preferred by scholars of Native American history, who consider the name "Iroquois" to be derogatory in origin. This name derives from two phonetically similar but etymologically distinct words in the Seneca language: "Hodínöhšö:ni:h", meaning "those of the extended house," and "Hodínöhsö:ni:h", meaning "house builders". The name "Haudenosaunee" first appears in English in Lewis Henry Morgan (1851), where it is written as "Ho-dé-no-sau-nee". The spelling "Hotinnonsionni" is also attested from later in the nineteenth century. An alternate