Boie'nen (Old Buhi Language)
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ga-a’

English: Translation
nickname; familiar or informal personal name; alias.
English: Definition
A name used in addition to, or instead of, a person’s formal **ngaran**, especially within the family, peer group, or community.
Notes

Boie’nen ga-a’ corresponds strikingly to Central Bikol gahâ, which is recorded as “nickname; alias” and also has an h-dropping pronunciation [gaˈʔaʔ]. This is therefore an excellent lexical example of the systematic absence/loss of /h/ in Boie’nen.

Compare:
ngaran — ordinary/proper name
bansag — externally bestowed community moniker or family alias

Some Boie’nen Nicknames

NICKNAME (Given/First Name)

ONSOY / PONSO (Alfonso)

PATSING / ATSING (Pacita)

ABRING (Abraham)

IMBAY (Esteban)

INTOY (Jacinto)

BIRANG (Severa)

TALIN ( Catalina)

PILING (Feleciano)

BINTAY / INTAY / ONTAY (Vicenta)

IN-TI (Vicente)

PIPING / PITO (Jose)

TONING / TONYA (Antonia)

AYO (Rosario)

BINONG (Severino)

MONING (Hermohenis)

TASON (Presentacion)

IDAD /SOLING (Soledad)

OYONG (Gregorio)

PIDO’ (Wilfredo)

INDOY (Pedro)

KOLAY (Nicolasa)

IMPONG / IMOY (Maximo)