Word origin
[1800–10,
Amer.; ‹ Chinook Jargon, prob. ‹ Clatsop (a division of the Lower Chinook once residenton the south bank of the Columbia and the adjacent coast)
u-ƛalxwə́(
n), said to mean “brook trout”
]This word is first recorded in the period 1800–10. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: chlorine, pueblo, rejuvenate, studio, unprofessional