payo

• IPA^(key): /paˈjo/ [paˈjo]
• Hyphenation: pa‧yo

payó (Basahan spelling ᜉᜌᜓ)

1. (anatomy) head
2. (formal, literary) leader

   Synonyms: lider, puon

3. (formal, literary) chief

   Synonym: hepe

• payotl (Amecameca)
• payatl (Texcoco)

payo

1. rebozo.

payó

1. (anatomy) head

According to Ramón Menéndez Pidal, borrowed from Portuguese or Galician payo, from Portuguese or Galician Pelayo, from Latin Pelagius, so of the same origin as the Spanish name Pelayo and related to piélago (“sea (poetic term)”).^[1]

• Rhymes: -aʝo
• Syllabification: pa‧yo

payo (feminine paya, masculine plural payos, feminine plural payas)

1. non-Romani person

   Synonym: gaché

   Antonym: calé

payo m (plural payos, feminine paya, feminine plural payas)

1. non-Romani person; gadjo
   • 1986, Mecano, Hijo de la luna:

     Este hijo es de un payo, y yo no me lo callo.

     This is a non-Romani man's son, and I won't hold my tongue

   • 2018 September 18, “La polémica de la apropiación cultural: ¿Es el éxito de Rosalía un robo a los gitanos?”, in El Mundo‎^[1]:

     ¿Puede una paya millennial de Barcelona triunfar cantando flamenco? Malamente.

     Can a millennial non-Romani woman triumph by singing flamenco? Hardly.

• → Catalan: paio

• “payo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *payu (“agreement, consensus; harmony”). Compare Javanese ꦥꦪꦸ (payu), and Malay payu.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpajo/ [ˈpaː.jo]
• Rhymes: -ajo
• Syllabification: pa‧yo

payo (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜌᜓ)

1. advice; counsel

   Synonym: konseho

• ayop, yapo, apyo, apoy

payo

1. rebozo

payo

1. (anatomy) head