swadəbš

Location:	Creek in Tacoma
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pronunciation: swa dəbš
word analysis: s (nominalizing prefix) + wada (stem, loan translation of Sahaptin wana, "water") + ʔabš (suffix, "people") = Water People

noun

pastəducid

1. Swadhums Creek
2. The people living at Swadhums Creek

note: Evidently a village in the 1920s located at East 24th Street or Puyallup Avenue, Tacoma. According to Herbert Hunt and Edmond S. Meany, the name means "Plain's People."

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sources

• 1994, Dawn Bates, Thom Hess and Vi Hilbert, Lushootseed Dictionary, ISBN 0-295-97323-4, University of Washington Press, p. 245
• 2004, William Bright, Native American Placenames of the United States, ISBN 0-8061-3576-X, University of Oklahoma Press, p. 467
• 1923, Edmond S. Meany, Origin of Washington Geographic Names, The Washington Historical Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 2, p. 286