Harlem) as the name of the hilly tract or district of Keskeskick, described as lying " over against the flats of the island of Manhattan." It is now preserved as the name of Cromwell Lake and creek, and seems to have been the name of the former. The original was probably an equivalent of Menuppek, " Any enclosed body of water great or small." (Anthony.) ' \' \\k Neperah, Nippiroha, Niperan, Nepeehen, Napperhaera, Ar= mepperahin, the latter of date 1642 (Col. Hist. N. Y., xiii, 9), forms of record as the name of Sawmill Creek, and also quoted as the name of the site of the present city of Yonkers, has been translated by Wm. R. Gerard, from the form of 1642 : " A corruption of Ana-nepeheren, that is, ' fishing stream/ or ' fishing rapids.' " Appehan (Eliot), "a trap, a snare." There was an Indian village on the north side of the stream in 1642. (Col. Hist. N. Y., xiii, 9.) Nepahkomuk, Nappikomack, etc., quoted as the name of a place on Sawmill Creek, and also as the name of an Indian village at Yonkers, may have been the name of the latter by extension. It has been translated with apparent correctness from Nepe-komuk (Mass.), " An enclosed or occupied water-place.'

^This translations is from Nepe (Nepa, Nape, Kippc, etc.), meaning "water," generally, and Komuk, "place enclosed, occupied, limited," a particular body of water. " The radical of Nipe is pe or pa, which, with the demonstrative and definitive ne prefixed, formed the noun nippe, water." (Trumbull.) Nape-ake {-aukc, -aki) means "Water-land," or water-place. Nape-ek, Del., Nepeauk, Mass., means " Standing water," a lake or pond or a stretch of still water in a river. Menuppek, " Lake, sea, any enclosed body of water, great or small." (Anthony.) Nebi, nabe, m'bi, be, are dialectic