[Facts] Re: Help with meanings of Filipino names
Well. You mention some quite interesting (and accurate, as far as I can tell) facts about the multi-faceted language sitation in the Philippines, and about the many ways that names start with a well-defined meaning, but then change and change again over time until it's hard not get dizzy...But: So what? We can still try, can't we? And see how far we can go, which sometimes indeed is not far, and other times nowhere at all, with names that are a complete mystery.If you check my list of names that are frequently used in the Philippines (which I list, for the sake of simplicity, under the label "Tagalog"), you will see that many of the really traditional names are written identically to common, everyday Tagalog words.No *guarantee*, as you correctly argue, that the names really *are* the common words, but come on, what's the probability of a particular name just written the same way, but with a completely different etymology, in a country where many signs point towards a fondness of using everyday words as names in earlier times? You may strive for near-perfection and near 100% certainties; I confess that I am content with less, to a reasonable degree.
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Help with meanings of Filipino names  ·  Loads of Randomness  ·  7/17/2016, 9:13 AM
Re: Help with meanings of Filipino names  ·  Rene  ·  7/18/2016, 9:05 AM
Re: Help with meanings of Filipino names  ·  Loads of Randomness  ·  7/19/2016, 1:48 PM
Re: Help with meanings of Filipino names  ·  thegriffon  ·  7/20/2016, 11:36 PM
Re: Help with meanings of Filipino names  ·  Rene  ·  7/21/2016, 11:52 AM
Re: Help with meanings of Filipino names  ·  thegriffon  ·  7/21/2016, 7:46 PM
Re: Help with meanings of Filipino names  ·  Loads of Randomness  ·  7/26/2016, 4:31 PM
Re: Help with meanings of Filipino names  ·  Rene  ·  7/21/2016, 11:45 PM