/Sabon/ "loan; debt" < French?

[David Robertson]

WEXt ayaq tEnEs c'Em pipa:

Yann, as a native speaker of French, are you in a position to say whether
the word /Sabon/, <shabon>, used in the newspaper _Kamloops Wawa_ about
105 years ago for a "loan" or "debt", came originally from your language?

Je n'ai pas le dictionnaire de Larousse.

Merci!
Dave



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