payo

See also: PAYO

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈjo/ [paˈjo]
• Hyphenation: pa‧yo

Noun

payó (Basahan spelling ᜉᜌᜓ)

1. (anatomy) head
2. (formal, literary) leader

   Synonyms: lider, puon

3. (formal, literary) chief

   Synonym: hepe

Derived terms

• mamayo
• pamayo

 

See also

• alimantak, alintak

 

Central Nahuatl

Alternative forms

• (Amecameca): payotl
• (Texcoco): payatl

Noun

payo

1. rebozo.

Northern Catanduanes Bicolano

Noun

payó

1. (anatomy) head

Spanish

Etymology

According to Ramón Menéndez Pidal, borrowed from Portuguese or Galician payo, from Portuguese or Galician Pelayo, from Latin Pelagius, so of the same origin as the Spanish name Pelayo and related to piélago (“sea (poetic term)”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaʝo/ [ˈpa.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈpaʝo/ [ˈpa.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈpaʃo/ [ˈpa.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈpaʒo/ [ˈpa.ʒo]

• Rhymes: -aʝo
• Syllabification: pa‧yo

Adjective

payo (feminine paya, masculine plural payos, feminine plural payas)

1. non-Romani person

   Synonym: gaché

   Antonym: calé

Noun

payo m (plural payos, feminine paya, feminine plural payas)

1. non-Romani person; gadjo
   • 1986, Mecano, Hijo de la luna :

     Este hijo es de un payo, y yo no me lo callo.

     This is a non-Romani man's son, and I won't hold my tongue

   • 2018 September 18, “La polémica de la apropiación cultural: ¿Es el éxito de Rosalía un robo a los gitanos?”, in El Mundo‎^[1]:

     ¿Puede una paya millennial de Barcelona triunfar cantando flamenco? Malamente.

     Can a millennial non-Romani woman triumph by singing flamenco? Hardly.

Descendants

• → Catalan: paio

Further reading

• “payo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Tagalog

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *payu (“agreement, consensus; harmony”). Compare Javanese ꦥꦪꦸ (payu), and Malay payu.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpajo/ [ˈpaː.jo]
• Rhymes: -ajo
• Syllabification: pa‧yo

Noun

payo (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜌᜓ)

1. advice; counsel

   Synonym: konseho

Derived terms

• payuhan
• tagapayo

 

Anagrams

• ayop, yapo, apyo, apoy

Temascaltepec Nahuatl

Noun

payo

1. rebozo

West Albay Bikol

Noun

payo

1. (anatomy) head