Kittatinny

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Unami kitahtëne (“big mountain”).[1]

Proper noun

Kittatinny

  1. A long mountain ridge traversing primarily Sussex County in northwestern New Jersey.
  2. A dolomitic limestone formation in New Jersey.

References

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