[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] Orange County and is now in Vernon, New Jersey, where it is still known as the "Wawayanda Homestead." Within a musket-shot of the site of the ancient dwelling flows Wawayanda Creek, and with the exception of the meadows through which it flows in a remarkably sinuous course, is the only object in proximity to the place where DeKay lived, except the meadow and the valley in which it flows. The locative of the name at that point seems to be established with reasonable certainty as well as the object to which it was applied--the creek. The meaning of the name remains to be considered. Its first two syllables are surely from the root _Wai_ or _Wae;_ iterative and frequentive _Wawai,_ or _Waway,_ meaning "Winding around many times." It is a generic combination met in several forms--_Wawau,_ Lenape; _Wohwayen,_ Moh.; [FN] _Wawai,_ Shawano; _Wawy, Wawi, Wawei,_ etc., on the North-central-Hudson, as in _Waweiqate-pek-ook,_ Greene County, and _Wawayachton-ock,_ Dutchess County. Dr. Albert S. Gatschet, of the Bureau of Ethnology, wrote me: "_Wawayanda_, as a name formed by syllabic reduplication, presupposes a simple form, _Wayanda,_ 'Winding around.' The reduplication is _Wawai,_ or _Waway-anda,_ 'many' or 'several' windings, as a complex of river bends." As the name stands it is a participial or verbal noun.