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Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names — Passage 45 (part 2)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Its native name was _taw-kee._" ("The Lenape and their Legends.") The name of another place on Long Island, written _Hogonock,_ is probably an equivalent of Delaware _Hóbbenac_ (Zeisb.), "Potatoes," or "Ground-nuts"; _Hóbbenis,_ "Turnips." (See Passapenoc.) Sagabonock has left only the remnant of its name to Sag-pond and Sag-harbor. It is from _Sagabonak,_ "Ground nuts, or Indian potatoes." (Trumbull.) The name is of record as that of a boundmark "two miles from the east side of a Great Pond," and is described as a "pond or swamp" to which the name of the tuber was extended from its product. Ketchepunak, quoted as the name of Westhampton, describes "The greatest