<div>Hi Dave,</div> <div> </div> <div>As I wrote in my previous message, the shorthand word next to "un pou" looks to be[inpu] (I can not distinguish it very clearly), and Demers has "inpu" for "louse" (pages 15 and 19). It is clear that there should be some connection...</div> <div>In any case, "un pou" would be very untipical as a French loanword to the Wawa, since the words of French origin come usually with the definite article (this would be, as far as I know, the only example of French loan with the indefinite article, making thus the French etymology for "inpu" unplausible aslo from this point of view)</div> <div> </div> <div>Francisc</div> <div><BR><BR><B><I>David Robertson <ddr11@COLUMBIA.EDU></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Thanks, Francisc. <BR><BR>I wonder, did Le Jeune invent this French etymology? Or could he have <BR>picked it up from St. Onge?
(They wrote to each other frequently, and <BR>collaborated on a book in shorthand Jargon.) St. Onge edited the Jargon <BR>publication of Demers & Blanchet. Of course a third possibility is that D <BR>& B came up with the "un pou" idea themselves. <BR><BR>This Jargon word wasn't used in the Kamloops area. His spelling of it in <BR>the "write it like it sounds" shorthand surely is based on someone else's <BR>written form. Sounds like Demers?<BR><BR>Barbara Harris wrote a good paper about potential French etymologies of <BR>Jargon words. "Handsaw or Harlot?" was the title. This "un pou" is one <BR>of numerous examples that could be added to it after a perusal of Le <BR>Jeune's works. Le Jeune was fond of imagining such connections, claiming <BR>that "Lillooet" comes from "l'alouette" and that he'd once proved to a <BR>Jewish gentleman that a lot of Shuswap Salish words are related to <BR>Hebrew. <BR><BR>--Dave R<BR><BR>To respond to the CHINOOK list, click 'REPLY
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