FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*daya, fromProto-Austronesian*daya(“upriver, toward the interior”). CompareIlocanodaya(“east”),Isnagmandaya(“upstream”),Batad IfugaoDāya(“heaven”),Tagalogilaya(“north”),Bikol Centraliraya(“upstream; inland”),Masbatenyoiraya(“upstream; hinerland”),Cebuanoilaya(“area away from the coast or town”),Waray-Warayiraya(“farm”),Maranaoraya(“upriver”),Kelabitdayeh(“upriver”),Malaybarat daya(“southwest”), andSangirdala(“interior”). From the view of the people living on the southern Kapampangan towns, the upstream of thePampanga River seems to be coming fromMount Arayat or locally known asBunduk Alaya. The sense “east” came from Kapampangan mythology whereApung Sinukuan, the god of thesun, is said to live on the mountain.
aláya
Borrowed fromSanskritआलय(ālaya,“house”).
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