It means "Land or place at the angle, point or corner," from Nciak (Del.), "Where there is a point." (See Nyack, L. I.) The root appears in many forms in record orthographies, due largely to the efforts of European scribes to express the sound in either the German or the English alphabet. Adriaen Block wrote, in 1614-16, Ahihicaiis as the name of the people on Montauk Point ; Eliot wrote Naiyag {-ag formative) ; Roger Williams wrote Nanhigan and Narragan;

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Van der Donck wrote Narratschoan on the Verdrietig Hoek Mountain on the Hudson ; Narmticon appears on the lower Delaware, and Narraoch and Njack (Nyack) are met on Long Island. The root is the same in all cases, Van der Donck's Narratschoan on the Hudson, and Narraticoii on the Delaware, meaning "The point of a mountain which has the character of a promontory," kindred to Neivas (Del.), "A promontory," or a high point.^ The Indian name of Verdrietig Hoek, or Tedious Point, is of record Nezvas-ink in the DeHart Patent, and in several other forms of record -- ^Navish, Navoash-ink, Naurasonk, Navisonk, Newasons, etc., and Neiak takes the forms of Narratsch, Narrich, Narrock, Nyack, etc. Verdrietig Hoek, the northeastern promontory of Hook Mountain, is a rocky precipitous bluff forming the angle of the range. It rises six hundred and sixty-eight feet above the level of the Hudson into which it projects like a buttress. Its Dutch-Englisb name "Tedious Point," has been spoken of in connection with Pocantico, which see.