What is the meaning of the Indian name Adirondack?

Answer 1

== == It is an Anglicized version of the Mohawk latilontaks (ratirontaks) 'they eat bark', a derogatory name which the Mohawk historically applied to neighboring Algonquian-speaking tribes. When food was scarce, the Algonquians would eat the inside of the bark of the white pine. The Mohawk word is composed of several morphemes, as is usual in the language: lati-, third-person plural masculine agent prefix; -lonta-, incorporated noun root for 'bark'; -k-, verbal root for 'eat'; -s, active state aspect suffix