Possible loanword into Beothuk from Javanese

Beothuk is extinct language of Newfoundland Canada, Algonquin-like but perhaps not Algic in origin. Perhaps a loan from the whaling period. See also Beothuk

• methabeet 'cattle'
• nethabete 'cows and horses'

Compare with Javanese

• sapi 'cow'

Native speaker wrote ow-as-bosh-no-un ? Whale's tail' (speaker included the ? suggesting perhaps ow-as-bosh-un-no or ow-as-posh-no-un ? (hard to tell if letter is a b or p)

Compare with
iwak paus buntot 'whale tail' (Google translate) in Javanese which (speaker option) sounds to me like [iwa paus bundo]

Donald Barnett