salay

salay

1. necklace

• Hyphenation: sa‧lay

Compare sablay.

salay

1. suspended by hanging; hung

salay

1. a makeshift, self-propelled, rattan cable car

Unknown.

salay

1. Indian ivy-rue (Zanthoxylum rhetsa)

• alyas, layas, sayal

salay

1. necklace

• A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

Borrowed from Kapampangan salay, older form of sale (“nest”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *salaʀ (“nest”). Compare Sambali halay, Bikol Central salag, Cebuano salag, and Maranao salag.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /saˈlaj/ [sɐˈlaɪ̯], /ˈsalaj/ [ˈsaː.laɪ̯]
• Rhymes: -aj, -alaj
• Syllabification: sa‧lay

saláy or salay (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎᜌ᜔)

1. nest (of birds, rodents, etc.)

   Synonyms: pugad, nido

2. branchlet of a branch of many leaves

Possibly borrowed from Malay serai, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *səray (“lemon grass: Cymbopogon spp.”). Compare Kapampangan sale (“lemongrass”) and Tausug sāy.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /saˈlaj/ [sɐˈlaɪ̯]
• Rhymes: -aj
• Syllabification: sa‧lay

saláy (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎᜌ᜔)

1. lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus)

   Synonyms: tanglad, nugo

• “salay”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*salaR”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*seray”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• layas, alyas