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Mimwheeten

Mimwheeten 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.

Proper noun

Mimwheeten

  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, 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...

Origin of Mimwheeten

From Klallam mímxʷtən.

Questions about Mimwheeten

What does Mimwheeten mean?
Mimwheeten means 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.
What part of speech is Mimwheeten?
Mimwheeten is a proper noun.

Words near Mimwheeten in the dictionary

  1. mimsies
  2. mimsiest
  3. mimsy
  4. mimulus
  5. mimuluses
  6. Mimwheeten
  7. mimzy
  8. min
  9. Min Bei
  10. Min Dong
  11. Min Min light

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