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koyomad

English: Translation
A louse nymph; a young or newly hatched human head louse that has emerged from the nit but has not yet reached adulthood. It resembles an adult **koto** but is smaller and sexually immature.
Filipino: Translation
lisa
Notes

koyomad

n.

Semantic note

Unlike lesa’, which remains fixed to the hair, a koyomad is alive and mobile. It crawls among the hair and scalp, feeds, and passes through successive nymphal stages before becoming an adult koto. Head-louse nymphs generally mature after three molts.

The English term nymph is biologically more accurate than larva, since lice undergo incomplete metamorphosis and have no separate larval stage.

Compare

  • lesa’ — nit; unhatched egg or attached empty egg casing.
  • koto — mature or adult head louse.

Dialectal and comparative note

Philippine cognates or closely corresponding forms include Cebuano kuyamad, Pangasinan kumar, Sundanese kuar, and Inabaknon kuyumad, the last explicitly recorded as a young or immature louse. These forms suggest an old regional term for the newly hatched or immature stage, although a secure Proto-Austronesian reconstruction has not yet been established from the available comparative evidence.