monadnock
English
Etymology
From the name of Mount Monadnock in New England, which derives from an Abenaki word, perhaps menonadenak, menonadenek (“smooth mountain”) or menadenak, menadenek (“isolated mountain”)[1], from aden (“mountain”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /məˈnædˌnɒk/
Noun
monadnock (plural monadnocks)
- A hill or mountain standing isolated above a predominantly flat plain.
- 1901, Philip Emerson, Notes on the New England Upland about the White Mountains, in Appalachia, vol. IX, p57
- Eastward from the White Mountains, the open sea of the upland country comes right to the monadnock shore, with hardly an outlying island; southward the upland is covered for miles by an archipelago of monadnock groups and peaks.
- 1901, Philip Emerson, Notes on the New England Upland about the White Mountains, in Appalachia, vol. IX, p57
Synonyms
- inselberg
See also
- nunatak
References
- "Vermont Soils with Names of American Indian Origin" United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service. Retrieved January 6, 2008.