| 词汇 | siwash |
| 词源 | siwash. To travel lightly, without equipment. A Chinook jar- gon word not deriving from the name of an Indian tribe that traveled that way (there is or was no Siwash tribe) but from a corruption of the French word sauvage, “savage, wild,” as if to insultingly say Indian “savages” traveled that way. |
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