Nyack, Rockland County, does not take that name from _Kestaub-niuk,_ a place-name on the east side of the Hudson, as stated by Schoolcraft, nor was the name imported from Long Island, as stated by a local historian; on the contrary, it is a generic Algonquian term applicable to any point. It was met in place here at the earliest period of settlement in application to the south end of Verdrietig Hoek Mountain, as noted in "The Cove or Nyack Patent," near or on which the present village of Nyack has its habitations. It means "Land or place at the angle, point or corner," from _Néïak_ (Del.), "Where there is a point." (See Nyack, L. I.) The root appears in many forms in record orthographies, due largely to the efforts of European scribes to express the sound in either the German or the English alphabet. Adriaen Block wrote, in 1614-16, _Nahicans_ as the name of the people on Montauk Point; Eliot wrote _Naiyag_ (_-ag_ formative); Roger Williams wrote _Nanhigan_ and _Narragan;_ Van der Donck wrote _Narratschoan_ on the Verdrietig Hoek Mountain on the Hudson; _Naraticon_ appears on the lower Delaware, and _Narraoch_ and _Njack_ (Nyack) are met on Long Island. The root is the same in all cases, Van der Donck's _Narratschoan_ on the Hudson, and _Narraticon_ on the Delaware, meaning "The point of a mountain which has the character of a promontory," kindred to _Néwas_ (Del.), "A promontory," or a high point. [FN] The Indian name of Verdrietig Hoek, or Tedious Point, is of record _Newas-ink_ in the De Hart Patent, and in several other forms of record--Navish, Navoash-ink, Naurasonk, Navisonk, Newasons, etc., and Neiak takes the forms of Narratsch, Narrich, Narrock, Nyack, etc. Verdrietig Hoek, the northeastern promontory of Hook Mountain, is a rocky precipitous bluff forming the angle of the range. It rises six hundred and sixty-eight feet above the level of the Hudson into which it projects like a buttress. Its Dutch-English name "Tedious Point," has been spoken of in connection with _Pocantico,_ which see. * * * * * [FN] Dr. Trumbull wrote: "_Náï,_ 'Having corners'; _Náïyag,_ 'A corner or angle'; _Náïg-an-eag,_ 'The people about the point.'" William R. Gerard wrote: "The Algonquian root _Ne_ (written by the English _Náï_) means 'To come to a point,' or 'To form a point.' From this came Ojibwe _Naiá-shi,_ 'Point of land in a body of water.' The Lenape _Newás,_ with the locative affix, makes _Newás-ing,_ 'At the promontory.' The Lenape had another word for 'Point of land.' This was _Néïak_ (corrupted to Nyack). It is the participial form of _Néïan,_ 'It is a point.' The participle means, 'Where there is a point,' or literally, 'There being a point.'"