How to Write 'Baybayin' in Baybayin Script (Tagalog)
Authentic and historically accurate pre-Philippine script transliteration of the Tagalog word Baybayin. Etymology, root derivatives, and conjugations validated by linguistic researcher and pre-Philippine script expert Kristian Kabuay.
TAGALOG TRANSLATION
Baybayin
Traditional Writing Method
Breakdown:
Ba-Ba-Yi
Modern Writing Method
Breakdown:
Ba-Y-Ba-Yi-N
Etymology
From the Tagalog word 'baybay' meaning to spell or to follow the shore, derived from Proto-Austronesian roots.
ROOT WORD: BAYBAY
bumaybay
to follow a path or coastline
baybayin
to spell out
pagbabaybay
the act of spelling
ibaybay
to lay something along the edge