coulee/cooley... R and L !!!

[Mike Cleven]

janilta wrote:
>
> Mike,
>
> No, 'coulee' and 'cooley' haven't the same source actually !
> The first one is from French 'coulee' (flow, from 'couler', to flow),
> the second one apparently from 'courir' (to run) taken from its
> imperative form 'courez !' (run !)...
> R and L !!!


Oops; yeah, you're right; I'd forgotten; I'd been thinking of "running"
in terms of waterflow and had the verb wrong anyway.  If it's an
imperative form, though, I might have to guess that it's Metis/voyageur
version - "couri!", perhaps.