I'm sure that it's already been mentioned, but there's a strong suspicion that the word used for northern North America just means town or village. Whether 'you fool' was said afterwards isn't known. Maybe just considered a little long to include? Or Champlain didn't hear that muttered?
Modern recursiveness came up with the town of Kanata, Canada (back in the '60s). This is a bedroom community of Ottawa, which itself was named after a tribe of natives who lived nowhere near here, but instead mostly around the shores of Lake Michigan. They just traded up and down the local river, which was then named the Ottawa (but also the Grande, and at least one other name).
The joys of living in a colonised country!
Alison
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