[An-lang] Etymology of BALARILA (Christopher Sundita)

[MWMintz]

José Panganiban  in his Diksyunario Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles  (1973) gives 
the origin of balarila as follows:

bala + ng díla'  or bala nang díla' basically meaning "everyone's language"

Malcolm Mintz


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>Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 23:20:33 -0800 (PST)
>From: Christopher Sundita <csundita at yahoo.com>
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>Hello,
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>Any ideas on the etymology of the Tagalog word BALARILA, meaning 
>"grammar?"  It
>appears to be based on the word DILA, but what would BALA mean? I attempted to
>look it up in Dr. Zorc's "Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino" but it
>wasn't listed.
>
>Thanks,
>
>--Chris
>http://salitablog.blogspot.com
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Malcolm W Mintz
School of Social & Cultural Studies, Discipline of Asian Studies
University of Western Australia
Crawley WA 6009 Australia

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