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Originally Posted by Coach
Yeah stupid words in original languages of the first people there. HAR HAR!
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You mean, stupid attempts by white people to pronounce words in languages they don’t know, completely butchering them?
A quick Wikipedia check (yes, I know) gives four hypotheses for the origin of the name ‘Wasatch’. It isn't even certain whether the name is derived from Ute or Shoshoni, and there are conflicting accounts of what the original word might have been and what it meant. However, in neither of those languages is ‘Wasatch’ the indigenous name of the mountain range. It might be a corruption of a word meaning ‘mountain pass’, or ‘blue heron’, or ‘land of many waters’, or even ‘berry basket’.
Har har indeed.