Sooke

sooké English Etymology Derived from the Klallam name clm súʔukʷ for the area around Sooke Harbor. Pronunciation en /ˈsuːk/ Noun sp 1 Coast Salish people of southern Vancouver Island in British Columbia. en T'Sou-ke Proper noun A district municipality on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, Canada. en Simon Little Woman arrested for ‘intentionally’ setting fires in woods near Sooke, B.C.: police Global News 2023-05-31 https://globalnews.ca/news/9737287/woman-arrested-for-intentionally-setting-fires-in-woods-near-sooke-b-c-police/ A 28-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly setting two fires in the woods near Sooke, B.C. https://web.archive.org/web/20251225160717/https://globalnews.ca/news/9737287/woman-arrested-for-intentionally-setting-fires-in-woods-near-sooke-b-c-police/ 25 December 2025 en river in southern i/Vancouver Island p/British Columbia. Dialect of the North Straits Salish language spoken by the T'Sou-ke people. en T'Sou-ke en Cecilia Joe, Barbara S. Efrat The Transformer and the Blind Old Man M. Terry Thompson, Steven M. Egesdal Salish Myths and Legends: One People's Stories 2008 University of Nebraska 119 The story was told by the late Cecilia Joe, on the Esquimault Reserve, Victoria, British Columbia. [...] Her retention of the Sooke language was excellent, and her skill was acknowledged by others on the Sooke Reserve. Saterland Frisian Etymology From stq ofs tziāke, ofs kēke, from stq gem-pro *kekǭ, gem-pro *kēkǭ, gem-pro *kakǭ, gem-pro *keukǭ, from stq ine-pro *ǵyewh₁- to chew. More at en cheek. Pronunciation stq /soːkə/ Noun stq noun f stq anatomy cheek