Taconic

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Etymology

From Tacony (a certain river) +‎ -ic. The river's name is borrowed from Unami tèkhane (literally “cold river”), from tè inan (“cold”) + -hàne (“river”).

Other early spellings include Taughkannuc.

Proper noun

Taconic

  1. A mountain range in New England, United States; A low mountain range in eastern New York, western Massachusetts, and southwestern Vermont.
    Synonym: Taconic Mountains
  2. A town in New York, United States.
  3. (geology) The geological process that resulted in the precursor to the modern Taconic mountain range and shaped much of the Appalachian range, or the time period in the early Silurian during which this occurred
    Synonym: Taconic orogeny

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Adjective

Taconic (comparative more Taconic, superlative most Taconic)

  1. (geology) Relating to the geological process which created the Taconic mountain range.

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References

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

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