Wookies and their name

My Question is why are the Wookies called Wookies? What was George Lucas reason for calling them like this?
I remember it has to do something with his dog, but don't remember it exactly.
Can somebody help me?

 

Why's a toydarian called a toydarien?

Why's a twi'lek called a twi'lek?

 

Chewbacca is/was his dogs name.

 

look here it's the thrid one up from the bottom so the thrid up from the last one. It's at the bottom of the page.

 

Indiana was his dogs name. He was inspired by the dog to create a hairy, 7-foot-tall wookiee.

 

They're actually called Wookiees, not Wookies.

 

They are indeed Bib, but in the original script they were "shaggy gray monters called Wookees".

 

Chewie is a wookie.






So ha, I prove my point!

 

In the original script it was Wookie then there was book that came out and it had the word Wookiee, so Lucas decided to change it to the spelling in the book.