George Carlin, a comedian and thinker/philosopher had posed the idea of the word ‘indian’ to mean more than the Indus region or being hailed from the naming conventions of Columbus;
“… Indian -That word probably does not derive from Columbia (Christopher Columbus) believing he had reached India in 1492. India was called Hindustan. More likely the word derives from Columbus’s description of the people he found here (Americas). He was an Italian who spoke very poor Spanish and in his written accounts he called the Indians ‘un in deos’ (in Dios?) a people in God. In God. In Deos. Indians. . .”
Deos or Dios relating to Deus relating to the word God. You know, like Deus Vult or as God Wills.
Side notes
I think a lot of historical academics and people deep in academic literature have their own predisposition doctrines, much like a church, that they’ll defend. I only pose the possibility that there is more than what the mainstream academic sciences and etymologies pose. We humans get a lot of things wrong, so let’s not throw away old knowledge completely, but entertain different possibilities, because we’re not all on the same time line depending on what perspective or side of the story you’re entertaining.
Side thoughts on ‘America’
I also think that the Term the “Americas” wasn’t named after some Italian Guy named Amerigo Vespucci. Mainly because why would some random person have the authority to name entire lands (continent sized) after himself when he worked under the Spanish and Portuguese Crowns. If anything they’d name North America and South America after Spanish or Portuguese royalty names. That’s my thought. (some sources say the world map was redefined by German Cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in 1507, naming the entire lands after Amerigo -and the Cartographer in question worked under the patronage of a Duke of Lorraine under the Holy Roman Empire).
My suspicion is that the Natives discovered by the explorers may have been one of the few tribes or civilizations that worshipped the god “Amaru” or “Amaruca” which (can) directly translate to the ‘Land of the Plumed Serpent’. In other native cultures, the ‘Americas’ are referred to as turtle island. Turtles and Snakes are reptiles so there may be a connection and consensus here in a buried history under this revisionist lens.
This theory aligns with the idea of in deos, considering that the people in America worshipped a god or a pantheon of gods (depending on your interpretation).
Some other notable names of the Americas is Vinland (Norse), Fusang (Ancient China), Zipangu (Japanese with Marco Polo influence).
Again, Mainstream Linguistics and such from academia will refute this as a lesser accepted or lesser known esoteric theory and call it new-age or debunk it as such. It’s very fringe and often accepted as schizo, but you know me.
Some further esoteric jazz, some say they astral projected to view the entire scope of the continent and saw it looked like a turtle and thus named it as such. To be fair, the ancestral medicines in the land of the Americas has a lot of power that even modern western (commercial) medicine is lagging behind in. But I’m just a random voice and writer on the internet so take everything with a grain of salt. If you get it, you get it, if you don’t that’s okay too.
Epilogue
I think it’s worth merit that being connected with nature and all of creation could give you a sense of purpose or idea with the concept of being ‘in god’ or ‘in deos’.
It’s worth nothing that Theo or Deus can be related to the concept of two or dos and that can be related with the concept and word of the ‘Dao’ and it’s yin and yang. Some early Chinese Christian Bibles translated replaced the word ‘God’ with ‘Dao’. In some circles, the idea of God can be viewed as the ‘Big Brother’, and that’s a earlier homage prior to George Orwell’s interpretation of Big Brother (totalitarian and overreaching)- related to the quote ‘God is the dream of a good government’ in terms of having an over-arching big brother to look after you and protect you.
In any case, words happen to tread over cycles and evolve in a similar manner, history repeats itself and some say it doesn’t but often rhymes. When you see the nature of words and their meaning, you may come to realize that the universe does like it’s puns. Until or When you see it, I’ll probably keep reciting;
Words Mean Things
Words Mean Things 
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