Chinook Jargon word for Donkey?

[Leanne Riding]

A question at the Chinook-Wawa group on Yahoo ended up puzzling me 
too -- the question was:

"What is the Chinook Jargon word for Donkey?"

Considering there are words for Mule (ie. "le mel" or "moola"), why 
not Donkey?
  Maybe "burro" or "l'ane"? For the question, "What is the Chinook 
the Chinook Jargon word for Donkey?" -- Should the correct answer 
for the question be,
  "Donkey"?

Did the word Donkey come from l'ane cay? "Mule colt / hoofed animal 
which is a mule/looks like a mule?"

:) I know, a stretch. The Cayuse thread has been putting thoughts 
in my head.
   However, I couldn't come up with anything better because the word 
Donkey seems itself a little mysterious. Here is what Wikipedia had 
to say about the etymology of the word Donkey:

"The word "donkey" is one of the most etymologically obscure in the 
English language. Until quite recent times, the standard word was 
"ass", which has clear cognates in most other Indo-European 
languages; no credible cognate for "donkey" has yet been 
identified, though it is possible that it is a diminutive of "dun" 
(dull greyish-brown), a typical donkey colour; originally, "donkey"
  was pronounced to rhyme with "monkey". In the late 18th century, 
the word "donkey" started to replace "ass", almost certainly to 
avoid confusion with the word "arse", which, due to sound changes 
that had affected the language,
  had come to be pronounced the same way (/æs/ > /ɑ:s/ and /ɑ:rs/ > 
/ɑ:s/). The /ɑ:s/ pronunciation of "ass" was eventually restored to 
/æs/ in order to reserve the distinction, but not without the 
curious consequence of American English losing the word "arse" 
entirely and handing over its meaning to "ass".

(Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey, Saturday, February 
5, 2005 16:59:18)

I also found "1785, slang, perhaps from dun "dull grey-brown," the 
form perhaps infl. by monkey. Or possibly from a familiar form of 
Duncan (cf. dobbin). The older Eng. word was ass."

(Online Etymology Dictionary, 
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=donkey&
searchmode=none, Saturday, February 5, 2005 17:21:06)

I wonder the 1785 reference referred to George Washington's donkeys 
which he received in 1785? He apparently also had a Chincoteague 
pony which he called "Chinky." Need to know more...

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