Do you know what I think of when I hear the word “bisaya“? I think of that time in my childhood when I was hungry during a bus trip with my mom, and a woman I’d never met before, a total stranger, ...

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What she found reveals how fundamental it is to the Filipino psyche. “The word nayánayá from Bisaya, a language of central Philippines, is polysemous [has multiple meanings],” she says.