Where does “paraya” come from?

paraya (Tagalog) comes from Tagalog daya, from Malay daya, from Proto-Malayic daya, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian daya, from Proto-Austronesian daya — landward; upstream.

paraya (Tagalog): yielding; giving way; stepping aside; forgoing something; sacrificing one's benefit for another's advantage

Definitions

  1. yielding; giving way; stepping aside; forgoing something; sacrificing one's benefit for another's advantage

Ancestry of “paraya”, step by step

paraya traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Tagalog daya

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tagalogdayadeceit; fraud; dodge
2Malaydayalandward; upstream; trick
3Proto-Malayicdaya—
4Proto-Malayo-Polynesiandayalandward; upstream; to trick
5Proto-Austronesiandayalandward; upstream

via Kapampangan paraya

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Kapampanganparayasacrifice; blood offering
2Kapampangandayablood
3Proto-Malayo-Polynesiandaʀaqblood
4Azerbaijani-ək—
5Proto-Turkic*-gekForms deverbal nouns

Words derived from “paraya”

Every word from Proto-Austronesian daya →