Etymology question.....

[David D Robertson]

Maybe this will help:

http://books.google.com/books?id=BixwbIM7ZvAC&pg=PA145&lpg=PA145&dq=jarbidge+etymology&source=web&ots=KOCt0kb4te&sig=4BFW4aLAu0jvNL6RYOA6r5zzoU0&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result

--Dave R




On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:23:58 -0700, =?WINDOWS-1252?Q?Ros=92_Haruo?=
<rosharuo at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

>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!
>>
>> 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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