\n\nDick Carter, Chair of the Delaware Heritage Commission, states that \nthe name of Murderkill River is taken from the original Dutch for Mother\n River. Mother is moeder in Middle Dutch, and river is Kille. Later, under British rule, the word \u201cRiver\u201d was added to the waterway\u2019s name, effectively making it \u201cmother river river.\u201d[9]\n The term \u201ckill\u201d is used in areas of Dutch influence in the Delaware and\n Hudson Valleys and other areas of the former New Netherland colony of \nDutch America to describe a strait, river, or arm of the sea such as Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania.
Yeah the settlement patterns of the Delaware Valley means there\u2019s a mixture of native, English, Dutch, and Welsh place names, it\u2019s great for shibboleths
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