payo

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

payó

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

   Synonyms: lider, puon

3. (formal, literary) chief

   Synonym: hepe

• (Amecameca): payotl
• (Texcoco): payatl

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]

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:

     ¿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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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

• Hyphenation: pa‧yo
• IPA^(key): /ˈpajo/, [ˈpa.jo]

payo

1. advice; counsel

   Synonym: konseho

payo

1. rebozo

payo

1. (anatomy) head