The story
- Lushootseed · borrowed fromsdukʷalbixʷ“people of the moon”
- English todaySnoqualmie
Anglicization of Lushootseed sdukʷalbixʷ (“people of the moon”), the autonym of the Snoqualmie people, a proper noun derived from Lushootseed sɬukʷalb (“moon”). In early maps of the Pacific Northwest, the indigenous etymon was anglicized as "Snoqualmoo", a spelling no longer used.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.