Walla Walla
English
Etymology 1
From the Walla Walla people.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌwɒlə ˈwɒlə/
Proper noun
Walla Walla
- A city, the county seat of Walla Walla County, Washington, United States.
- 2025 May 31, Paula Mejía, “Gen Z Doesn’t Want to Start a Bar Tab”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
- “It increases anxiety in me when I leave a tab open,” said Cameron Haluska, a 26-year-old beer sales representative from Walla Walla, Wash.
- A tributary of the Columbia River in Washington, United States; in full, the Walla Walla River.
Derived terms
Noun
Walla Walla pl (plural only)
- A Sahaptin indigenous people of the Northwest Plateau.
Noun
Walla Walla (plural Walla Wallas)
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Proper noun
- A town in Greater Hume Shire, in southern New South Wales, Australia.
References
- Putnam, George Palmer (1915), In the Oregon Country; Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California, Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making[2], New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, retrieved 20 July 2022, pages 26–27