Another one: Lemolo <=> Untrained Horse

[Leanne Riding]

Thanks for the link! According to the site at that link, Marron as
a horse color would be equivalent to the American English 'Bay',
which is a brown horse with black mane and tail. A quick glance at
some pictures of wild mustangs in the Chilcotin district of British
Columbia does show Bay colored horses among them.

For people following the Cayuse thread, here is a link I found
about the Elegesi Qiyus, B.C.'s wild horse preserve.

http://www.umanitoba.ca/manitoban/20031029/nf_02.html

Here is another interesting link about the horses specifically:

http://members.shaw.ca/save-wild-
horses/Research%20Paper%20-%20R.%20Alison.htm

Marron as a color, was some sort of reddish brown (as opposed to
our related english word Maroon, a purply red). There is also some
kind of nut of the chestnut family called a Marron.

However when it came to the French Canadians, one commentator I
read claimed that the French Canadians used "Marron" to refer to
all wild animals. John Todd only used it to describe horses and I
would guess he picked up that word from his staff.

I wonder if that means there was a resident herd of wild Mustangs
at Kamloops, or if he is just referring to his colts.

On Saturday, January 29, 2005, at 09:26 , David Robertson wrote:

> Leanne,
>
> What interests me here is that "marron" may have been used as a
> horse-color
> term.  I'd have automatically made the associations I've learned
> to make
> with Spanish and (I thought) French words meaning "runaway /
> rebellious /
> untamed / wild".  (Compare not only 'cimarron' but its
> derivative 'Seminole', a tribe whose name comes from Florida
> Spanish.)  I
> had never made the connection with the meaning "chestnut" although of
> course that's a familiar label for horses' color.
>
> This link might be interesting:
> http://www.geocities.com/Athens/3240/hc_caste.htm
>
> It leads you to a list of horse color terms in various languages.
>
> Chinook Wawa vocabulary is more elaborated in the arena of horse
> technology
> than virtually any other; it's really deserving of a study all to
> itself.
> The "Cayuse" question alone would make a good paper.
>
> --Dave R.
>
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