The Art of Literary Nomenclature

ORIGIN:
From the Great Basin Native American Washo language, meaning “people from around here”.

VARIATIONS and NICKNAMES:
Wa She Shu, Waashiw, Washoe.

REFERENCES IN LITERATURE:
– Washo, Wallula’s father, in “Major Molly’s Christmas Promise” from Nora Perry’s A Flock of Girls and Boys (1895).