Two Sas, One Quatch?

Many a Sasquatch abound in our newest puzzle, Polar Shenanigans, but puzzlers are left wondering: what do you call such a multiple of these bearded-blue beasts? A gang? A murder? What're their cave HOA meetings like? We can’t answer those questions until we get to the root of the Sasquatian plural.

We should probably begin with the etymology. Sasquatch is an anglicized version of the Halkomelem word sásq’ets, meaning “hairy man,” from the Salishan languages of the Pacific Northwest.

Our Polar Shenanigans Sasquatch, however, is notably icier than his temperate cousins. Maybe they’re Abominable Snowmenian speaking English? Maybe they’re Yetian speaking Tibetan?

Let’s stick with Sasquatch as our term of choice—I’m writing from the Pacific Northwest, after all, and cryptozoologists here have been known to send a Wendigo after anyone who denies the existence of all Sasquatchian variants. So how do they pluralize?

In the Salishan language, plurals are formed through reduplication—copying the first consonant-vowel pair of the root. So one Sasquatch, two Sasaquatch.

But English plurals ending in -ch usually take -es. So one Sasquatch, two Sasquatches.

 And Tibetan plurals? Identical to their singulars: one Sasquatch, two Sasquatch.

So we’re left with Sasaquatch? Sasquatches? Sasquatch?

You decide. Either way, let them to shenan again in peace, you probably don't wanna run into a live one.