Etymology question.....

[Ros’ Haruo]

It seems unlikely to me. The Chinook (Wawa) term is of French origin, I
think, from Diable, and I can't quite see how that would transpose itself
into Jarbidge on the way from the Columbia Basin down to Nevada.

lilEnd

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Yakima Belle <yakimabelle at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Tlahowya!
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> There is a small, remote town in Nevada named "Jarbidge", which locals tell
> me comes from a local tribal word for devil or perhaps demon. Does anyone
> know if this is possibly related to - either as the source of, or derivation
> from - the Chinook term "Djuab?"
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