Stoluck-Wha-Mish
/ˌstoʊ.lʌkˈwɑː.mɪʃ/noun
A historical English spelling for the Stillaguamish, a Coast Salish Indigenous people of northwestern Washington.
Did you know?Stoluck-Wha-Mish is one of several nineteenth-century spellings used by English speakers for the Stillaguamish; the original Indigenous form belongs to Lushootseed, not English.
Etymological Timeline
Pre-contact period
Lushootseed
Uncertain Indigenous form
“The name originated in the Lushootseed-speaking cultural and linguistic region; its precise original segmentation is not securely established.”
19th Century
English
Stoluckwamish
“An English-recorded ethnonym for the people later commonly called the Stillaguamish.”
19th Century
English
Stoluck-wha-mish
“A hyphenated historical spelling appearing in older English-language records.”
19th–20th Century
English
Stillaguamish
“The spelling that became standard in English for the Indigenous people and river of northwestern Washington.”
Modern English
English
Stillaguamish
“The present-day standard name; Stoluck-Wha-Mish survives mainly as a historical variant.”
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