From the Ho-Chunk word for "yellow"(Wisconsin Historical Collections 8:396), after the Yellow River. Verwyst calls it a corruption of Nissida (Ojibwe), meaning "let there be three of us," but settlers were much less likely to have picked up words from the Ojibwe than from the Ho-Chunk in that vicinity in the mid-19th century.

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[Source: Wisconsin Historical Collection, v.12, p.394]