ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary Online

*dúyan swinging cradle for an infant

PPh dúyan swinging cradle for an infant ⇫ ¶

WMP
Ibanag	do:yan	hammock
Kalinga	do:yan	hammock
Bontok	dáyun	a swing
Ifugaw	dāyun	a blanket or mat hammock (as for a child to sleep in); a hammock is suspended from a horizontal pole and carried on the shoulders of two men to transport someone unable to walk; it is sometimes suspended from two vertical poles and used for sleeping
	dáyun	cradle, i.e. an oblong basket that can be suspended in some way on both its ends, so that the baby can be rocked; the word is also applied to a long cradle-like basket used to carry a sick person to a certain place
Ifugaw (Batad)	dāyun	a blanket or mat hammock (as for a child to sleep in); a hammock is suspended from a horizontal pole and carried on the shoulders of two men to transport someone unable to walk; it is sometimes suspended from two vertical poles and used for sleeping
Yogad	do:yan	hammock
Gaddang	do:yan	hammock
Pangasinan	man-andóyan	to swing in a hammock, cradle, etc.
	andóyan	hammock, cradle; be in a hammock, etc.
Ilokano	dúyan	a rattan stretcher; hammock
Kapampangan	du:yan	hammock
Tagalog	dúyan	cradle; hammock; synonym , , ( can be used even by an adult, while and are for babies only; or may also mean “hammock”; swing; a seat hung from ropes on which one may sit and swing
	i-pag-dúyan	to swing somebody in a cradle, hammock or swing
Hanunóo	mag-dúyan	to sleep, rest, or rock back and forth in a hammock
	dúyan	hammock; hammock-like cradle
Masbatenyo	i-dúyan	to swing in a hammock
	mag-dúyan	to swing in a hammock
	dúyan	cradle, hammock
Aklanon	dúyan	hammock; cradle; to rock
	dúyan-dúyan	to rock back and forth
Waray-Waray	pag-dúyan	the act of swinging to and fro the hammock
	ig-dúyan	to swing couch or bed
	dúyan	hammock; couch or bed
Agutaynen	doyan	hammock; swinging cradle for a baby (can be made from a basket, blanket, net, etc.)
Hiligaynon	dúyan	swing, cradle, crib, hammock
	mag-dúyan	to rock a cradle, to swing
Palawan Batak	duyán-an	hammock
Cebuano	dúyan	hammock; cradle; rock oneself in a hammock; swing back and forth; for an emotion to sway one; make a hammock
Binukid	duyan	hammock; to swing in a hammock; to rock (someone) in a hammock
Maranao	doyan	hammock
Manobo (Western Bukidnon)	duyan-aʔ	hammock
	duyan	to swing in a hammock
Mansaka	doyan	a child’s swing; to swing (as in a hammock)
Bikol	mag-duyán dúyan	to rock or swing in a hammock
	i-dúyan	to rock a cradle or hammock
	dúyan	cradle, hammock
	mag-dúyan	to rock a cradle or hammock

Reconstructions

PPh

dúyan

swinging cradle for an infant

Note

Also Ilokano indáyon ‘hammock; cradle; swing’, ag-indáyon ‘to swing’. Yakan duyan a (wide) swing, hammock made of rattan is assumed to be a Greater Central Philippines loan. Hammocks were invented in the tropical rainforests of South America, and so far as is known, nowhere else. Bennett (1963:24) notes that they “have a wide distribution in Amazonia, the Guianas, Venezuela, and the West Indies, and are also found among the Goajiro of Venezuela, the Cuna and Chocó of tropical Colombia, and the Cueva of Colombia.... Hammocks ae not found in east Brazil, with the exception of the Cre’pumkateye, who are known to have borrowed them. They are likewise rare in the Chaco, although used as baby cradles by some groups.” Since hammocks are absent elsewhere in the Austronesian world it seems most reasonable to infer that this word originally referred to a swinging cradle for an infant, and was then extended to include the hammock, which presumably was introduced during the Spanish colonization of the Philippines. With *-y-, found in a number of unrelated words relating to swaying or swinging motion.