^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

24 INDIAN GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES.

Meghkeekassin, the name of a large rock in an obscure nook on the west side of the Neperah, near the Hudson, is written Macackassin in deed of 1661. It is from Mechek, Del., " great," and assin' "stone." " Meechck-assin-ik, At the big rock." (Heckewelder.) The name is also of record Amack-assin, a Delaware term of the same general meaning -- " Amangi, great, big (in composition Amangach), with the accessory notion of teTrible, frightful." (Dr. Brinton.) Presumalbly, in application 'here, " a monster," i. e. a stone not of the native formation usually found in the locality.^ Wickquaskeck is entered on Van der Donck's map as the name of an Indian village or castle the location of which is claimed by Bolton to have been at Dobb's Ferry, where the name is of record. It was, however, the name of a place from which it was extended by the early Dutch to a very considerable representative clan or family of Indians whose jurisdiction extended from the Hudson to or beyond the Armonck or Byram's River, with principal seat on the head waters of that stream, or on one of its tributaries, who constituted the tribe more especially known to the Dutch settlers as the Manhattans.