Mamaroneck.
A town located on the Long Island Sound in Westchester County, New York, United States, on land purchased from Native Americans in 1661.
Meaning & usage
A town located on the Long Island Sound in Westchester County, New York, United States, on land purchased from Native Americans in 1661.
A village in Westchester County, New York, located partially in this town and in the town of Rye.
Where this word comes from
From an Algonquian name. Nora Thompson Dean suggested Unami mehëmalunèk (“place to dance”); Whritenour suggested the more plausible Munsee maamaalahneek (“striped stream”), from maamaaleew (“to be striped”).
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