The term Munsee developed as an English name for the aggregated group that formed along the upper Delaware River north of the Delaware Water Gap. Other Munsee dialect speakers joined the Minisink group; the earliest recorded mention of Munsee dates from 1725. Minisink is a Munsee term meaning at the island, and is to be transcribed mə̆nə́sənk. It is the locative form of a now disused word /mənə́s/ island(no source given, not a form given in records and not a normal Munsee noun ending; viz. manan, manhan; form suggests small island); cognates in other Algonquian languages are e.g. Ojibwe minis, island. Orthographic ⟨ink⟩ in the form Minisink is the modern Munsee locative suffix /-ənk/ (discussed below in the Grammar section). The term Munsee is the English adaptation of a regularly formed word mə́n'si·w (person from Minisink).