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[Malcolm Ross]

This post is intended to elicit possible cognates of a form commonly used in Isinay, a language of Northern Luzon, Philippines.

The form is written as pinutuan, and only occurs in the phrase uwes pinutuan 'tie-dyed blanket', where uwes /ʔúwes/ is from a Proto-Northern Luzon *ʔúləs (note Ifugao /ʔúloh/, Ilokano /ʔúles/). In Isinay it is clearly a borrowed word (possibly from Ilokano before Isinay medial *l was lost in this environment), since schwa is normally reflected as /o/ in Isinay. Similarly final *s is commonly reflected as Isinay /t/). 

The form pinutuan is sometimes pronounced [pinutúʔan], although other possibilities exist [pinutúwan], [pinutuʔán], and [pinutuwán], since Isinay has a contrast between /ʔ/ and a high glide after /i/ and /u/ (e.g., /síʔa/ 'you' and /siyá/ 'he/she/it', and lexical stress is contrastive). Tie-dyed blankets are no longer made in Isinay, and the practice died out several generations ago. They were commonly sold to Ifugao, Bontoc, and Kankanay people to wrap dead bodies before burial.  However Isinay terms which could be possible sources have nothing to do with tie-dying (/putúʔ/ 'explosion', from which we could get /pinutuʔán/ 'killed by a gunshot or other explosion', and /pútu/ 'sever with a downward blow of an axe or bolo', from which we could get /pinutúwan/ 'killed by having one's head or other limb cut off'). But nothing to do with tie-dying. Possible this form is also borrowed, but from where? 

For a description of the blanket see this file:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B19gCZd2KnoUMjJyVlJnaDNEOEU/view <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B19gCZd2KnoUMjJyVlJnaDNEOEU/view>

Laurie Reid
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