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Footprints of the Red Men: Indian Geographical Names — Passage 71 (part 2)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906)] _Waway,_ "Winding around many times";--_-anda,_ "action, motion" (radical _-an,_ "to move, to go"), and, inferentially, the place where the action of the verb is performed, as in _Guttanda,_ "Taste it," the action of the throat in tasting being referred to, and in _Popachándamen,_ "To beat; to strike." As the verb termination of _Waway,_ "Round about many times,"