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Where does “buyboya” come from?
buyboya (Cebuano) comes from Cebuano -a, from Proto-Austronesian *-a.
Ancestry of “buyboya”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Cebuano
-a
creates imperative forms of verbs
2
Proto-Austronesian
*-a
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