CJ: chapeau?

[Henry Kammler]

Hi there,

this list is probably too fast for me. Last week someone gave some
thoughts on the CJ word for "hat" as probably being derived from French.

Well, the Nuuchaahnulh word is
tsiyapuxsim  {[x] is palatal fricative}
(Most speakers just say tsiyapuxs today.)

two suffixes can be isolated:
-uxs "used as headgear"
-im  "thing" (it is sort of a word formative, similar to a nominalizer)

This leaves the root
tsiyap-

I doubt that this would come from a French or CJ loan, the "o"-Sound in
chapeau being too prominent to just be dropped.

Henry