Renamed Tumwater Middle School
“The renamed Tumwater Middle School in Portland, Oregon’s suburb of Beaverton honors the Chinuk Wawa language”, says the media headline.
(Image credit: KOIN)
(tə́mwáta ‘falls, rapids; Oregon City’)
Although the local school board chair is named Tymchuk, the option of naming this school Tumchuck was declined!
(tə́mtsə́qw, a rarer synonym of Tumwater, known from Joel Palmer 1847 and James Swan 1857)
The article also notes another name for Chinook Jargon, Sháwásh-wáwa.
(‘Indian-language’)
Oregon is really the epicenter of new CW names these days. Nowhere else do we see them being added to the map with such vigor…
