# Snoqualmie

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #88,870

## Definitions
1. A member of an indigenous Coast Salish people of North America native to the Snoqualmie and Skykomish river valleys of central Washington.

## Etymology
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.

## Source
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