‘Ball’ is not bouncy (if it’s doing its job)
Riddle me (with) this…
What kind of ‘ball’ is Central and Southern Dialect lapal?
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It’s Pb, that is the chemical element lead, as in the shot pellets (balls) used in guns.
That’s what the French source word meant and means — la balle also serves for ‘bullet’.
Lapal is not a kid’s plaything.
That would have been expressed by French le ballon (giving an expected, but never found, Chinuk Wawa word ~libalo), or the Michif-favored la pelote (which would give an expected CW ~laplot).
That latter word did get loaned into a couple of interior BC Salish languages, Secwepemctsín and St’át’imcets. But not into known Chinook Jargon.
Just a little clarification for you.
