"The word passion comes from the Latin word passio, which means "suffering" or "being acted upon". It can be traced back to the Proto-Indo-European word peh, which means "to hurt."  @London 2024 Siraya 'pun' is developed from 'peh' means 'to hurt'. Note number (Note no) used for examples refers to   THIS   blogpost.  ( https://katyhuiwenhung.blogspot.com/2025/01/becoming-indigenous-observations-over.html ) Etymology and Ethnology go nowhere if no one raise  questions I became curious about indigenous  revitalization  (language and cultural) about 10 years ago. And the more I observed, better equipped with knowledge and experience, the more proposed analysis I found odd, more claims questionable. I also noticed -  No one re-examine over the last one-hundred years since Japanese records.  No one re-analyze over the last fifty years since Ferrell and Blust's hypothesis and claimed consensus. Questionable 'Origins of the Fo...

Puyuma 卑南  Precious Beads and Corals @National Taiwan University I first learned from a Taiwan Old-Family friend about Matreli  馬智禮  (a legendary Puyuma leader) was in fact born a full-blooded Hokkien Chinese who escaped to Taiwan with his father at age of four. My friend was going to contact Matreli's grandson  馬來盛 (who was named in honour of Matreli's father 朱來盛 ) prior to our Hualien-Taitung trip asking if  he would be interested in meeting us .  馬來盛 declined. For maybe a year or so, I had thought Matreli was the first (and only) full-blooded Han Chinese who made his way to Taiwan and rose to become an indigenous tribal leader.  While exploring Saisiyat's complicated migration route and history, I noticed something odd and soon  日阿拐 ( basi-Banual)  was brought to my attention.   It looks like  akuwai (nickname, born a Hokkien 張), instead of Matreli, was the first.  Not only the dig-out of this early 20th century Han Chines...