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Mencken, among others, claims that it is from French aufait meaning `mastery' presumably introduced via New Orleans.
Other notables in this necessarily brief catalogue of American toponymists include Henry Gannett, working around the turn of the century, who compiled several state gazetteers and a still influential study on the origin of U.S. place names; H. L. Mencken, with several seminal chapters in his American Language (1936); and Kelsie Harder, whose Illustrated Dictionary of Place Names: United States and Canada (1976) remains the most reliable resource for place-name origins.
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In the same piece, he traces savvy to Portuguese, which might be correct, but Mencken's American Language derives it from the Spanish sabe . Professor Kaye's nuance word is, at a guess, a suggestion from a word-processor's spelling checker which was derailed by nonce word .
Finally, concerning the etymology of savvy , Mr. Lawrence should not believe everything he reads in sources such as Mencken's American Language . In fact, I checked in another dozen English dictionaries, and they all state that savvy comes from Spanish sabe . These dictionaries are simply wrong on this point (as they are, I might add, on many other etymologies).