History
According to the National Resources Conservation Service at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Mount Monadnock in southern New Hampshire derives its name from the Abenaki word menadenak. In “Geology of the Mt. Monadnock Quadrangle, New Hampshire” (1979), geologist Katharine Fowler-Billings writes the word monadnock had been coined by Wm. Morris Davis in 1896 to refer to “any such hill or mountain rising above a flat surface produced by deep erosion.” Today, monadnock is still commonly used as a term in geological study—with others, such as inselberg—both to imply an isolated rock formation. In 1884, Chief Jos. Laurent, alias Sozap Lolô, writes that Abenakis orthography cites the mountain’s name being derived from the original spelling môniadenok or mônadenok to mean “silver mountain”—from môni for silver and the root aden for at, to, of, from, on the mountain.
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