Sunday, November 15, 2009

I'd like to know if French name Illilouette means anything?

It is the name of a beautiful creek in Yosemite that has lots of great trout! I don't speak French and it seems like it would have some kind of meaning.

I'd like to know if French name Illilouette means anything?
LLILOUETTE FALL is the 370 foot drop of the ILLILOUETTE CREEK which heads in the Clark Range. After dropping over the fall, the creek flows north through ILLILOUETTE GORGE and joins the Merced River below Vernal Fall. Hutchings called the gorge South Canyon (as opposed to North Canyon, now Indian Canyon) or Glacier Canyon, undoubtedly because of its proximity to Glacier Point.





There is some dispute as to the origin of the name. Bunnell claimed that the name was not of Indian origin and “is, therefore, meaningless and absurd.” It may, however, have come about as a difficult translation from the Indian to the English. The canyon was called “Too-lool-lo-we-ack” for which no translation has been agreed upon, although it may have meant “the beautiful.” [Editor’s note: Bunnell, in true discreet Victorian form, translated the meaning of Too-lool-lo-we-ack to Greek, which translated to English means “urinating.”—dea. ]
Reply:I'm pretty sure it doesn't mean anything but indeed it is very pretty.


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