Mimwheeten

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proper noun

Group of mountains (Griff Peak, Unicorn Horn, Unicorn Peak) in the Olympic Mountains, on the Olympic Peninsula, ressembling a reclined women as seen from the lower Elwha River.

OriginKlallam mímxʷtən →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. Group of mountains (Griff Peak, Unicorn Horn, Unicorn Peak) in the Olympic Mountains, on the Olympic Peninsula, ressembling a reclined women as seen from the lower Elwha River.

    The Olympic Mountains remain a significant source of mythical stories (or sx̣wiʔám̕) of quarreling spouses turned into peaks and Mimwheeten, the sleeping lady in the mountains, who can be seen from the Lower Elwha Valley reposing on her back—when she stands up, the world will come to an end [...].

    2009 September 29, Colleen E. Boyd, ““You See Your Culture Coming Out of the Ground Like a Power”: Uncanny Narratives in Time and Space on the Northwest Coast”, in Ethnohistory, volume 56, number 4, pages 714-715

Origin

  1. Klallammímxʷtən
  2. EnglishMimwheeten

From Klallam mímxʷtən.

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APA

Mimwheeten. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Mimwheeten

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