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Meaning & History
Shadoo is a surviving personal name in the Edisto language of South Carolina. This was the name of a captain or chief of the Edisto Nation encountered by Robert Sandford in 1666. The name is alternatively written in historical documents as Sheedou. The etymological meaning of this personal name has been lost to time, as the Edisto language, related to other Cusaboan languages, is largely unattested. Superficial comparisons can be drawn between the name "Shadoo" or "Sheedou" and other Cusaboan personal names, such as the preserved Escamacu personal name, Shemdadee. The Edisto prefix "Sha" or "Shee" may dialectically relate to preserved Cusaboan geographic names associated with bodies of water, like Shem Creek in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, which was historically called Shamee, Shemee, Shembee, or Shimbee. However, the exact etymological meaning of this geographic name has also been lost due to the extinction of all members of the Cusabo language family.