turnip query

[Alan H. Hartley]

David Robertson wrote:

> Could "turnip" have come from a Canadian dialect 
> term like <navot> or <naveau>, maybe even <naval>?  I notice the Laverdure-
> Allard Michif dictionary has <lee navoo>, [li navo].

Juneau's _Contribution à l'histoire de la prononciation francaise au 
Québec_ (1972) p. 261 cites s.v. navet:

navos (1676)
navaux (1751, 1785)

Alan

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