English
saya
Saya comes from Spanish saya ‘skirt’.
- Spanishc. 1500–presentsaya‘skirt’
- Tagalogmodernsame form
- Englishearliest quotation 2022same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Spanishc. 1500–presentsaya‘skirt’
- Tagalogmodernsame form
- Englishearliest quotation 2022same form
Earliest quotation: 2022, James Hopper: “And as she stalked in her long, loose stride…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- ‘to trace, follow’
seek, sake, sucker, soc, hegemony, beseech, hegemon, sagittal, presage, sagacity, 19 more
through Latin sagum ‘sagum, a military cloak’
Today it means
noun A skirt.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Spanish saya / saya