CJ in Pidgin Japanese?

[Dave Robertson]

Also reminiscent of Carrier (BC Athabaskan) "sagonaz" (this is also from 
memory) for "white people".  I'll have to check the book "Paper that 
Relates" on this; it doesn't leap out at me from my Carrier dictionary 
here at home.

--Dave



On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:23:37 +0100, Anthony Grant <Granta at EDGEHILL.AC.UK> 
wrote:

>A group of Japanese sailors is sometimes also claimed to have been in 
Miluk Coos territory.  They were referred to in Coos as /saagandas/ as I 
recall, which looks like the French-derived Ojibwe term for English (or, 
in Oklahoma Ottawa, white people in general) and a bit like the Japanese 
word for fish.
>
>Anthony
>
>>>> Morgan Miller <obu at TELEPORT.COM> 04/11/07 6:18 pm >>>
>Or perhaps from the rumoured stranded Japanese sailors village in
>Tillamook country?
>
>
>On Apr 11, 2007, at 7:10 AM, Francisc Czobor wrote:
>
>> Hi, Dave,
>>
>> it's only a coincidence. In Japanese, "hayaku" means "quickly,
>> rapidly, fast", being the adverbial form of the adjective "hayai"=
>> "quick, rapid, swift".
>>
>> Francisc
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