English
Hackensack
Hackensack comes from Unami ahkin'kèshaki ‘place where the ground is sharp or rough’.
- Unamimodernahkin'kèshaki‘place where the ground is sharp or rough’
- Englishearliest quotation 1975Hackensack
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Unamimodernahkin'kèshaki‘place where the ground is sharp or rough’
- Englishearliest quotation 1975Hackensack
Earliest quotation: 1975, Walter Becker, Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More: “Driving like a fool out to Hackensack / Drinking…”
Every English word from Unami ahkin'kèshaki
Today it means
name A river in New York and New Jersey, United States.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Unami ahkin'kèshaki / Hackensack