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Also Tiruray ideŋ ‘mother’, Simalur ində ‘mother animal’. Tagalog indáy ‘young girl’, Aklanon indáy "Miss" (common term of address for girls and ladies)’, Hiligaynon índay ‘girls of age one to fifteen; address term for girls chronologically younger than the speaker’, Cebuano indáy ‘title or term of address for a female the same age or younger than the speaker; female, girl’ appear to form a distinct cognate set, restricted to Central Philippine languages. I assume that, like *indu, *inda is often reflected with a vocative suffix (Blust 1979).