Hackensack

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Unami ahkin'kèshaki (“place where the ground is sharp or rough”).[1] Doublet of Achkinckeshacky.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈhæ.kənˌsæk/
  • (US, weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈhæ.kɪnˌsæk/, /ˈhæ.kɨnˌsæk/

Proper noun

Hackensack

  1. A river in New York and New Jersey, United States.
  2. A city, the county seat of Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
    • 1975, Walter Becker, Donald Fagen, “Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More”, performed by Steely Dan:
      Driving like a fool out to Hackensack / Drinking his dinner from a paper sack
    • 1977, “Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)”, in The Stranger, performed by Billy Joel:
      Who needs a house out in Hackensack
    • 2018 June 4, Perri Klass, M.D., “When New Means No: Picky Eating as a Normal Toddler Phase”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 21 August 2018:
      Hildy S. Lipner, chief of pediatric speech pathology at Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital in Hackensack, N.J., said that by the time she sees children with picky eating problems, they are usually between 18 months and 3 years old and already have their patterns well established.
  3. A city in Cass County, Minnesota, United States, named after Hackensack in New Jersey.

References

  1. ^ Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005), “ahkin'kèshaki”, in Grant Leneaux, Raymond Whritenour, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project
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