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Wabash

wa·bash

US/ˈwɔbæʃ/ rare

noun

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a tributary of the Ohio River that rises in western Ohio and flows southwestward across Indiana

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Via French Ouabache, from Miami [Term?] (“it shines white”), referring to the Wabash River (which has a limestone bed), ultimately from Proto-Algonquian *wa·p- (“(be) white”).

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