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Local Texas tradition says that it comes from a Karankawa word meaning "facing the wind".

This is impossible to verify since the Karankawa people became extinct before 1860 and their language was not studied or recorded in detail. The only source for about 100 words of the language is a Mrs Alice Williams, who had lived among the Karankawa and learned some words; she recorded that the word for wind was ba'.

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