Catayo/Etayu 塔塔悠/達戈紋 - How Did (Over 100-Years) This Word Spread from South, West, to North and East ? The Extinct Dog?? (Note 297)

 




How did this word ethatao (Dutch Georgius Candidius 1627) spread from South (Siraya) all across Western plains-indigenous (Pazeh) to North (Basay/Ketagalan) and East (Amis/Kavalan) over 100 years? 

👉Because of the now extinct long white-hair dogs roaming in the village??

Ethatao 塔塔悠/達戈紋 (17-18 century)
悠/紋 is the weaving pattern 紋.

Lower-Upper Catayo (or Etayu by 許's credible account)  - 
I believer lower Etayu existed before upper.
Whether lower (下 - Ei in Hokkien) word 'E' has something to do with the original E-thatao (17th century). Possible but probably not if the separation was done by Japanese. I don't know.

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Georgius Candidius and  his wife Saartje Specx (half Dutch half Japanese)



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