"Kabay" is a word in HILIGAYNON
kabáy - The Visayan name for the month
of June. (cf. húnyo).
kabáy - An exclamation denoting a wish or
longing. Would to God! Oh, that it were so!
Kabáy pa, nga kaloóyan kitá sang Mahál
nga Diós! May God have mercy on us! Básì
pa lang nga maumpawán ang masakít;
kabáy pa! Perhaps the sick person may yet
recover; may it be so! Kabáy pa! Amen!
Pangabáy—to wish, desire. N.B. "kabáy” at
times also has the meaning of "perhaps,
perchance, may be” e.g. Indì kabáy siá
magabút? Perhaps he will not come?
kabáyo, (Sp. caballo) Horse; part of a
plough called the beam, the wooden beam
to which the "kalíng” (plough-handle) is
attached.
The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today not by the dead hand of tradition but by modernity itself, and they can be salvaged only by moving beyond it.
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