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Where does “Kamloops” come from?

Kamloops (English) comes from Shuswap tk'əmlúps — meeting of the rivers.

Ancestry of “Kamloops”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Shuswaptk'əmlúpsmeeting of the rivers
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