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Sanetch

Sanetch is the alternative form of Saanich.

Meaning of Saanich

Noun

Saanich (plural Saaniches or Saanich)

  1. A member of a Native American people from British Columbia.
    • Mount Newton is next on the list of Greater Victoria landmarks that First Nations want to see restored to their traditional names. The Saanich, or Wsanec, tribes know the mountain as Lau,Welnew, which means place of refuge in the Sencoten language. […] “There’s big support for that one in the...2013 May 26, Judith Lavoie, “Mount Newton, known as Lau,Welnew to First Nations, next on name-change list”, in Times Colonist
    Synonyms:
    W̱SÁNEĆ

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Questions about Sanetch

What is Sanetch the alternative form of?
Sanetch is the alternative form of Saanich.

Words near Sanetch in the dictionary

  1. saner heads will prevail
  2. saneroite
  3. Saners
  4. SANEs
  5. sanest
  6. Sanetch
  7. sanewash
  8. sanewashed
  9. sanewasher
  10. sanewashers
  11. sanewashes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Sanetch (page history and authors); Saanich (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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