mystery "French" in Wawa

[CHRISTOPHER SCHINDLER]

The French for dandelion is (with article) le dent-de-lion.
The "lapeyl" part reminds me of CJ "lapoel", Fr. "la poele"
(with circumflex accent on the first e) - so [frying]pan can?
"labins" seems to be an example of what Henry is suggesting,
where Eng. "beans" being prefixed with a Fr. article.

Chris
 


> [Original Message]
> From: <hzenk at PDX.EDU>
> To: <CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
> Date: 6/11/2008 3:55:57 PM
> Subject: mystery "French" in Wawa
>
> I was wondering whether anyone out on the list has a clue about the  
> following three words, all collected as Wawa by John P. Harrington on  
> the lower Columbia and Oregon Coast in 1942 (these are from the  
> Harrington Papers, mf rolls 17 and 18):
>
> lident 'dandelion' (given by Louis Fuller, who also spoke Salmon R
Tillamook).
>
> labins 'beans' (also Louis Fuller).
>
> lapeyl 'can (for cooking in)' (Joe Peter, a Cowlitz living at Yakima Res).
>
>
> All three words appear to have French articles, but I don't find  
> anything like them in my French dictionary.  Are they Canadianisms?   
> Local coinings?  (Since so many nouns for introduced items are from  
> French, there may be a tendency to adopt the French article as a sort  
> of noun-classifier for such words).  Henry
>
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