Talk:Igorot

Etymology

@Mlgc1998 Just wondering where you got the idea that the etymology of "Igorot" is from a language from the northern Philippines instead of just Tagalog? --Mar vin kaiser (talk) 10:16, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

@Mar vin kaiser Sorry, I just read this now after a ...certain trending sickness. I think I remembered this after seeing someone leave an edit for the etymology section of Ilocos Region and then reading up on other wiki pages or other websites about the etymology of Ilocos before, then I remembered a long time ago from some people older than me at that time before was saying that this "i-" prefix (kinda like the taga- prefix in Tagalog) connected to some root is like a widespread normal default sort of demonym prefix around the languages in Northern Luzon, particularly around the Cordilleras where like the frequent example words they mentioned before was this Igorot, Ilocano, Ilocos Region, Ifugao, Ibaloi, Ivatan, Ikalahan, Ibanag, Itawis, etc. cuz I think during that time, I also read in some wiki pages that Batanes, Bataan, Ivatan all were related with the root. And whenever someone mentioned before this idea about Igorot, they also always said that this "golot" meant like mountains there. I could not confirm that this prefix for demonyms specifically, also existed for Tagalog since I knew the usual Tagalog demonym prefix was usually taga- as in the name of the language itself, and the guy who wrote the etymology in Ilocos Region was trying to dissuade against saying etymologies there came from Tagalog and I thought yeah, it sounds more plausible for terms like these be from languages there and Tagalog would later borrow it from them, just like other parts of the country it tended to do that. Mlgc1998 (talk) 05:46, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

@Mlgc1998: Thanks for the reply. I hope you're feeling better now. The first thought I had this is that since this term is an exonym, it's improbable for the word to come from one of the Cordilleran languages, by definition. So I thought that since "golot" is an obsolete Tagalog word, as mentioned in other sources, it could be from Tagalog, but from your reply, it could also come from Ilocano, since they live in the lowlands, so them using the term "Igorot" as an exonym makes sense. I does seem like that the prefix "i-" as a demonym doesn't exist in Tagalog. That's why this word was perplexing. Thanks for your insights. --Mar vin kaiser (talk) 13:46, 13 January 2022 (UTC)