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The Assabet River is a small river about west of Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The river is long.〔U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. (The National Map ), accessed October 3, 2011〕 OARS: the (Organization for the Assabet, Sudbury and Concord Rivers ), headquartered in West Concord, Massachusetts, is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation, protection, and enhancement of the natural and recreational features of these three rivers and their watershed. The Assabet and Sudbury Rivers merge in Concord to become the Concord River. ==Name== The river has had many variations of the same name over the centuries, without anyone knowing for sure what it means. Some traditional meanings are associated with the place. ''Assabet'' is said to come from the Algonquian word for "the place where materials for making fish nets comes from." Other traditional meanings are "at the miry place" or "it is miry." The name has been spelt as Assabeth, Asabet, Elizbeth, Elizabet, and others. It is possible to decode this name in the southern New England branch of Algonquian, spoken by the Pawtucket tribe, which once fished there. The name is segmented :assa-pe-t from ''assa'', "turn back", ''pe'', a short form of ''nippe'', "water", used in compounds, and a locative suffix, -t, a shorter form of -et after the vowel. The meaning would be "at the place where the river turns back." At high water the Assabet does not flow downstream with the Sudbury but turns it into the Sudbury marshes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Assabet River」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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