The story
- English · derived fromwater
- Chinook Jargon · derived fromtumtum“heartbeat”
- Chinook Jargon · borrowed fromtumwata“waterfall”
- English todayTumwater
Borrowed from Chinook Jargon tumwata (“waterfall”), from Chinook Jargon tumtum (“heartbeat”) + English water.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.