Satuit is a Native American Wampanoag word meaning "cold brook" (salt, cold stream?). [1] The town of Scituate, a seacoast town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States, on the South Shore, midway between Boston and Plymouth, derived its name from this word. [2] Satuit changed name to Scituate in 1640. [3] The Wampanoag Indians inhabited the area and were referring to a brook by that name which runs into the inner harbour at what is now called Scituate. [4] Seteat was an alternative Indian spelling of Satuit. [5] Satuit Brook still flows into the head of the harbour, at the southern end of front street next to Bank of America. There is a locating marker on the south side of the road. [6]
More recently Satuit has been incorporated in the name of several businesses located in the greater Boston area.