meaning of "wishkah"?

[Tony Johnson]

Khanawi-Laksta,

I was told by my elders that wishkah means "the stink river."  They said "-qa" means river or water.  To verify this for the reply I just checked Dale Kincade's Upper Chehalis Dictionary.  He in fact gives "xwEshqa" as the proper name with the meaning of "stink river."  (The E = schwa.)  For those who don't know, Chehalis is a Salish language, and an obvious contributor to Chinuk Wawa.  

ALqi tsa wawa--Tony A. Johnson
Sawash-ili7i
"Grand Ronde, OR"

>>> Elizabeth Murphy <res0xw0y at VERIZON.NET> 08/23/02 10:35PM >>>
I would like to know more about the meaning of the work "wishkah". There
is a river and town by this name on the Olympic Penninsula but I have
found few clues about the origin?meaning of the word.