Snoqualmies

English

Noun

Snoqualmies

1. (nonstandard) plural of Snoqualmie

   Synonym: Snoqualmie

   • 1999 January 21, Mike Lindblom, “Hops and Dreams”, in The Seattle Times‎^[1], Seattle: The Seattle Times Company, archived from the original on 2023-12-10:

     A boatload of 37 Chinese arrived in Issaquah in the early 1870s willing to work for lower wages and provoked resentment among local pickers. A group of five whites and two Snoqualmies fired into Chinese tents at night, killing three and wounding three.

Proper noun

Snoqualmies

1. Alternative form of Snoqualmie
   • 1908 July, Thomas W. Prosch, “Seattle and the Indians of Puget Sound”, in The Washington Historical Quarterly‎^[2], volume 4, number 2, Seattle: University of Washington, →JSTOR, archived from the original on 2020-03-19, page 308:

     Patkanim represented his Indians, the Snoqualmies and Snohomishes; and Goliah the Skagits and others. Leschi and the Nisquallies did not interfere, and it was well for them they did not, as the stronger tribes of the lower Sound would have resented such action, blood would have flown, and the Nisquallies would have been wiped out.

   • 1992, Robert H. Ruby, John A. Brown, A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest (The Civilization of the American Indian Series; 173)‎^[3], Revised edition, Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 December 2023, page 214:

     The Snoqualmies are said to have carried the designation "people of the moon,' and also "crowned with snow." They believed themselves to have been transformed from the mythical Beaver. Unlike most other natives of the Puget Sound Basin, they were well organized, but such a degree of organization allowed less individual freedom for their people.

Usage notes

The words Snoqualmies and Snoqualmie are both valid plural forms of Snoqualmie when used as a noun, and alternative forms of one another when used as a proper noun, but compared to the latter, the former is nonstandard, its usage rarer, usually dating to the late 19th and early 20th century.