[An-lang] Etymology of Tagalog "hilaga"

[Robert Blust]

Hello,

I'm not sure where Bill Davis got the idea that "Malaysian and Indonesian
have *hilaga".  *The normal word for 'north' in Malay/Indonesian is *utara*,
a Sanskrit loan, and *hilaga* does not appear in any dictionary of the
language that I have seen.  The* hilaga* form appears rather to be confined
to Tagalog and a small number of languages in the Philippines that may have
borrowed from it.

Best,

Bob Blust

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 3:22 PM, Bill Davis <bill_davis at ntm.org> wrote:

> 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,
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> 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.
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> Thanks,
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> Chris Sundita
> http://conf.ling.cornell.edu/csundita
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