Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. You may find more data at sakay.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Sakay.

Examples

  • And yet, in the face of what would seem to be the obvious and natural supposition that the Sakay is a half-breed of the Semang and Jakun, our authors, following Professor Rudolf Martin (Die Inlandstämme der malayischen Halbinsel), discover in the Sakay a distinct race of wholly different origin from the Semang and Jakun -- but allied to the Veddahs of Ceylon!

    The Negrito and Allied Types in the Philippines and The Ilongot or Ibilao of Luzon David Prescott Barrows 1913

  • In concluding this account of the Ilongot I cannot forbear calling attention to what appears to me a striking resemblance between them and the "Sakay" of the Malay peninsula as these latter are photographed and described in Skeat and Blagden's Pagan Races of the

    The Negrito and Allied Types in the Philippines and The Ilongot or Ibilao of Luzon David Prescott Barrows 1913

  • Pg. 55, "Sakay" occurs here and in a few other instances in the text.

    My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) Giovanni Battista Cerruti 1882

  • (she wrote the story of "Sakay" and pared down Nick Joaquin's "A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino" to the definitive adaptation used in the 1965 film and still staged today), while also starring as Joan of Lorraine, Lady Macbeth, Medea, Hecuba, Desdemona, Bernarda Alba,

    GIBBS CADIZ 2010

  • Sakay surrendered, and most of his lieutenants were soon captured or killed.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • Sakay surrendered, and most of his lieutenants were soon captured or killed.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • Afterward, I was mentioning my impression of Sakay to someone and one-thing-led-to-another and suddenly I had an ARC of THE BLADE ITSELF in my hand.

    Marcus Sakey and the Combo Platter 2007

  • Afterward, I was mentioning my impression of Sakay to someone and one-thing-led-to-another and suddenly I had an ARC of THE BLADE ITSELF in my hand.

    January 2007 2007

  • Mercado galloped up, shouting an explanatory "Sakay!" as he charged straight into the brush.

    Terry A Tale of the Hill People Charles Goff Thomson

  • I am gettin 'some likely neighbors -- probably the other was his side-kicker, that laughin' devil of a Sakay!

    Terry A Tale of the Hill People Charles Goff Thomson

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.