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Footprints of the Red Men / Indian geographical names in the valley of Hudson's river, the valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware: their location and the probable meaning of some of them. cover

Footprints of the Red Men / Indian geographical names in the valley of Hudson's river, the valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware: their location and the probable meaning of some of them.

Chapter 17: ERRATA.
By Edward Manning Ruttenber
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The work compiles and analyzes Indigenous place-names across the Hudson, Mohawk, and Delaware valleys, identifying original locations, mapping them, and proposing probable meanings based on local physical features. It explains methodological issues in transmission and orthography, compares Algonquian and Iroquoian dialect forms (including Unami, Minsi and Mohawk), and notes how names were sometimes extended or transferred by settlers. Entries translate root elements for common landscape features—hills, streams, stones, meadows—and discuss locative suffixes, polysynthetic structure, and the limits of certainty while citing documentary locatives, missionary vocabularies, and comparative linguistic evidence.




ERRATA.


Through an oversight in revising manuscript written several years ago, Narratschoan (page 121) was assigned to the Verdrietig Hoek Mountain. It should have been assigned to Butter Hill, and Klinkersberg should have been assigned to the Donderberg. Klinkers is from Dutch Klinken, "To sound, to resound." It describes, with the suffix -berg, a hard stone mountain or hill that resounds or echoes—Echo Hill. Narratschoan, the name of Butter Hill, is from Nâï, "It is angular, it corners"—"having corners or angles." (Trumbull.) The letters -atscho stand for -achtschu, Zeisb., -adchu, Natick, "Hill or mountain," and -an is the formative. The combination may be read, "A hill that forms an angle or corner." To recover the Indian name of Butter Hill compensates in some degree for oversight referred to.

Brodhead (Hist. N. Y., i, 757, note), it will be seen by those who will examine, made the same mistake in locating Klinkersberg that is referred to above. The "Vischer's Rack" or "Fisherman's Bend" was clearly the bend around West Point. The Donderberg, or Klinkersberg is the elevation immediately north of Stony Point.