サイバシ

Japanese

Etymology

From Chinook Jargon siwosh (“Indian”), from French sauvage (“savage”). Possibly influenced by Japanese 才走(さいばし)る (saibashiru, “to be clever”).

Noun

サイバシ • (saibashi) 

1. (Canada) an Indian; a Canadian aboriginal

References

• Hancock, Ian F. (1969) A Chinook Jargon loanword in Canadian Japanese. American Speech, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 231–232.