I’m at sea looking for an etymology for < pousk > ‘ship’
What may be the earliest known vocabulary collection of early CJ (Franchère 1820:204-205)* contains this entry:
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pousk, navire [‘ship’]
????
I’m not finding any leads on an etymology in Chinookan, Salish, K’alapuyan, Nuuchahnulth, English, or French. The usual suspects are exhausted.
Is “pousk” and/or “navire” a misprint, then? For what?
Ideas?
* Lewis & Clark took vocabularies of lots of Indigenous languages, apparently including early Chinook Jargon, but they got lost before they could have been published! 😒

