[An-lang] Etymology of Tagalog "hilaga"

[Bill Davis]

Not sure, but I know that SW Palawano (PLV) has iraga? and Malaysian and Indonesian have hilaga. I have heard that cardinal directions came into Austronesian from other sources. Before that names of seasonal winds, up/down river, mountainward/seaward, etc., were all.

-Bill


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Hello,

Does anyone happen to have any insight on the etymology of Tagalog
*hilaga *'north'?
I've consulted the ABVD, ACD, and Wolff (2010), but was not very successful
in finding an answer.

I see that the word for "north" in a number of Philippine are reflexes of
PAn *qamiS, though the Tagalog reflex, *amihan*, refers to the north or
northeast wind.

I also see that Antonio Pigafetta noted that the word *iraga *'north
wind' in his Malay word list.

Thanks,

Chris Sundita
http://conf.ling.cornell.edu/csundita
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