Etymograph

English

James Bay

James + bay; * (Arctic Ocean): Named after Thomas James, who explored the region in the 1630s * (Vancouver Island): Named after James Douglas, Governor General of the crown colony of British Columbia

A compound of James + bay

Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב

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Latin Iācōbus

Vulgar Latin Iācōmus

Old French James

Middle English James

English James

Late Latin baia

French baie ‘bay’

English bay

Today it means

name A gulf of Nunavut, Canada, at the southern end of Hudson Bay, Arctic Ocean. A large sub-arctic sea surrounded on three sides by land of Ontario (on the west and south) and Quebec (on the east and south), the southernmost extension of the Arctic Ocean.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / James Bay