LocalizationHaute-Soule ("High Soule", Sola Sobiran /'sulɔ subi'rã/ in medieval Gascon) comprises the mountainous part of the former viscounty of Soule (Xiberoa in Souletine Basque), heir to the Aquitanian Sibulates and which got to be named "Sobola" in Romance dialects then "Sola". A rather common phenomenon, Haute-Soule is known by a totally different name in Basque : Basabürü i.e. "limit of the forests" from basa- (baso=forest) + buru=limit which nevertheless has got the same general meaning as its Romance counterpart : it designates the area where lands were not cultivated anymore, in a word the deep mountains. The main river in Haute-Soule is the Saison river also known as Gave de Mauléon : its official name (Sason /sa'zu/ in Gascon, formerly Gaison) may be the deformation of the Basque word ugaitz, a variant for uhaitz(=torrent). In Basque, the Saison river still is named Uhaitzandi "the great torrent".
Camou (Game in Basque, probably from *gamoa>gamue) is situated on a little tributary of the Saison river named Ibargoene. The village's official name (Camon /ka'mu/ in Gascon) is the Gascon variant of a common Basque word deemed to be of Celtic origin : gamo/gamu from Celtic *kambo "curve of river" with intervocalic -mb- being simplified to -m-, a feature shared by Basque, Gascon and Catalan. Other villages named according to that word are Cambo (retaining the etymological -mb- or developed independently later on) in Labourd, Camou in Lower Navarre and the many placenames in France named Camou, Camon, Cambon, Chambon, ... The village's very watermill is named "Kanboko Eihera" i.e. "Camou's mill". Jean-Baptiste Orpustan postulates that gamu in Basque got to mean "thermal waters" as Gamarthe in Lower Navarre and Gamarde in the Landes are famous for their hot springs (from Basque gamo- + arte=inbetween). Indeed, Soule's Camou is not situated on a curve but a hot spring is attested on maps.
Camou (Game in Basque, probably from *gamoa>gamue) is situated on a little tributary of the Saison river named Ibargoene. The village's official name (Camon /ka'mu/ in Gascon) is the Gascon variant of a common Basque word deemed to be of Celtic origin : gamo/gamu from Celtic *kambo "curve of river" with intervocalic -mb- being simplified to -m-, a feature shared by Basque, Gascon and Catalan. Other villages named according to that word are Cambo (retaining the etymological -mb- or developed independently later on) in Labourd, Camou in Lower Navarre and the many placenames in France named Camou, Camon, Cambon, Chambon, ... The village's very watermill is named "Kanboko Eihera" i.e. "Camou's mill". Jean-Baptiste Orpustan postulates that gamu in Basque got to mean "thermal waters" as Gamarthe in Lower Navarre and Gamarde in the Landes are famous for their hot springs (from Basque gamo- + arte=inbetween). Indeed, Soule's Camou is not situated on a curve but a hot spring is attested on maps.
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