Etymology

Mamaroneck

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Today it means: A town located on the Long Island Sound in Westchester County, New York, United States, on land purchased from Native Americans in 1661. Full definition →

Unami mehëmalunèk ← Munsee maamaalahneek
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The story

  1. Munsee · derived frommaamaalahneek“striped stream”
  2. Unami · derived frommehëmalunèk“place to dance”
  3. English todayMamaroneck

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”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.