<div>It seems unlikely to me. The Chinook (Wawa) term is of French origin, I think, from Diable, and I can't quite see how that would transpose itself into Jarbidge on the way from the Columbia Basin down to Nevada.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Yakima Belle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yakimabelle@yahoo.com">yakimabelle@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Tlahowya!<br><br>There is a small, remote town in Nevada named "Jarbidge", which locals tell me comes from a local tribal word for devil or perhaps demon. Does anyone know if this is possibly related to - either as the source of, or derivation from - the Chinook term "Djuab?"<br>
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