lebine (<Y Vincent)

[Anthony Grant]

It's not article-agglutinated but if this is of any interest, Morris Swadesh recorded /bi:nz/ as the word for 'beans' from Mae Barrett Elliott, one of the last three speakers of Siuslaw, in the suymmer of 1953 in Florence, Oregon, and she chuckled when she said the word (the tape shows this) because she clearly saw it as an English loan.  I suspect this word was widespread in NW languages because beans weren't rerally a pre-European dietary item.  

As for "les binnes", etc., recall that standard French has different words for different kinds of beans ('haricot' being from Nahuatl, incidentally), and that California Spanish borrowed English 'mush' as 'mosh', cornmush.  It must have differed from atole in some way.   (Bill Bright's paper on hispanisms in Californian lgs in the Sydney Lamb Festschrift indicates this.)

Anthony


>>> <hzenk at PDX.EDU> 02/26/06 7:28 pm >>>
> I have no copy of my posting on 'lebine'. Basically I
> said that although I cannot think of any word matching
> 'lebine' in standard French, my NTC dictionary of
> Canadian French has 'les binnes' for 'beans with
> pork'. But now I think we have here a mere anglicism
> of 'beans'.
>

For whatever it's worth, Harrington recorded labIIns (II=stressed long I,
a=caret) 'beans' as Chinuk Wawa from Louis Fuller, a Tillamook speaker from the
Oregon coast.  Henry

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