サイバシ
Japanese edit
Etymology edit
From Chinook Jargon siwosh (“Indian”), from French sauvage (“savage”). Possibly influenced by Japanese 才走る (saibashiru, “to be clever”).
Noun edit
- (Canada) an Indian; a Canadian aboriginal
References edit
- Hancock, Ian F. (1969) A Chinook Jargon loanword in Canadian Japanese. American Speech, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 231–232.