Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names — Passage 2 (part 5)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Most of these latter, however," he adds, "may be shown by strict analysis to belong to one of the two preceding classes, which comprise at least nine-tenths of all Algonquian local names which have been preserved." For example, in Class I, _Wapan-aki_ is a combination of _Wapan,_ "the Orient," "the East," and _aki,_ "Land, place or country," _unlimited;_ with locative suffix (_-ng,_ Del., _-it,_ Mass.), "In the East Land or Country." _Kit-ann-ing,_ Del., is a composition from _Kitschi,_ "Chief, principal, greatest," _hanné,_ "river," and _ing_ locative, and reads, "A place at or on the largest river." The suffix _-aki, -acki, -hacki,_ Del., meaning "Land, place, or country, _unlimited,_" in Eastern orthographies _-ohke, -auke, -ague, -ke, -ki,_ etc., is changed to _-kamik,_ or _-kamike,_ Del., _-kamuk_ or _-komuk,_ Mass., in describing "Land or place _limited,_" or enclosed, a particular place, as a field, garden, and also used for house, thicket, etc. The Eastern post-position locatives are _-it, -et, -at, -ut;_ the Delaware, _-ng, -nk,_ with connecting vowel _-ing, -ink,