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<font size=3>José Panganiban in his <i>Diksyunario Tesauro
Pilipino-Ingles</i> (1973) gives the origin of <i>balarila</i> as
follows:<br><br>
<i>bala + ng díla'</i> or <i>bala nang díla'</i> basically meaning
"everyone's language"<br><br>
Malcolm Mintz<br><br>
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1. Etymology of BALARILA (Christopher Sundita)<br><br>
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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 23:20:33 -0800 (PST)<br>
From: Christopher Sundita <csundita@yahoo.com><br>
Subject: [An-lang] Etymology of BALARILA<br>
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Hello,<br><br>
Any ideas on the etymology of the Tagalog word BALARILA, meaning
"grammar?" It<br>
appears to be based on the word DILA, but what would BALA mean? I
attempted to<br>
look it up in Dr. Zorc's "Core Etymological Dictionary of
Filipino" but it<br>
wasn't listed.<br><br>
Thanks,<br><br>
--Chris<br>
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