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Hadn't heard this one before.
Cherrandi Abucay Surname
She's not sure where her parents came up with this. The fn is prn shur-RAHN-dee. Combo of Cheri and Randi? And the only name I've seen similar to Abucay is a Hispanic version of Habakkuk - Abacuc - on a guy.
Thoughts?
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
Cherrandi Abucay Surname
She's not sure where her parents came up with this. The fn is prn shur-RAHN-dee. Combo of Cheri and Randi? And the only name I've seen similar to Abucay is a Hispanic version of Habakkuk - Abacuc - on a guy.
Thoughts?
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
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Abucay
The second name, Abucay, comes from a Filipino place name (Abucay, Bataan), known because there is the second oldest church of Philippines (Santo Domingo Abucay).
According this link, it is from Tagalog origin:
http://www.asiafolks.com/index.php?showtopic=138&mode=linearplus
The second name, Abucay, comes from a Filipino place name (Abucay, Bataan), known because there is the second oldest church of Philippines (Santo Domingo Abucay).
According this link, it is from Tagalog origin:
http://www.asiafolks.com/index.php?showtopic=138&mode=linearplus
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Found this nice story about a (possible) origin of the name Abucay:
http://www.tambayanet.com/bataan/abucay.html
Of course hard to say whether it really happened this way. At least I verified "kinaykay" to really mean something along the lines of digging, like in the expression "kinaykay ng manok" ("the digging of the chicken") that one can find with Google, and I know that "abo" means "ash" in Tagalog.
http://www.tambayanet.com/bataan/abucay.html
Of course hard to say whether it really happened this way. At least I verified "kinaykay" to really mean something along the lines of digging, like in the expression "kinaykay ng manok" ("the digging of the chicken") that one can find with Google, and I know that "abo" means "ash" in Tagalog.
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It could be.
That seems a logical explanation to the place name. Perhaps it is another folk etymology involving Europeans and missinterpretations of words and place names, but it is plausible.
That seems a logical explanation to the place name. Perhaps it is another folk etymology involving Europeans and missinterpretations of words and place names, but it is plausible.
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