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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
Lumia
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According this link, it is from Tagalog origin:
http://www.asiafolks.com/index.php?showtopic=138&mode=linearplus
Lumia
http://onomastica.mailcatala.com
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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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